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[Sexton, David]

Sure, you could do it all client-side too... would actually be faster. I've
never done it that way, so I don't know what other pros/cons may exist other
than the user disabling scripting (obviously a con). If you wanted to avoid
relying on Javascript in addition to cookies, you could have a standard
submit button and a javascript-free HTML form that posts to itself or
another page... and let PHP handle the cookie creation.

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Dumas [mailto:rdumas at cmj.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 4:03 PM
To: 'NYPHP Talk'
Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] Simple form-based selection and cookie-setting/g
etting



ah-ha... so my FORM element should look something like... 

<form name="mediaplayerchoice" id="mediaplayerchoice" method="post"
action="javascript:SetPlayer()"> 

where SetPlayer reads like this: 

function SetPlayer(player) { 
 
document.setcookie("preferredmediaplayer",player,time()+60*60*24*30,"/player
/","cmj.com",0); 
} 

...correct? 

--RD 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Sexton, David [ mailto:David.SextonJr at ubs.com
<mailto:David.SextonJr at ubs.com> ] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:58 PM 
To: 'NYPHP Talk' 
Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] Simple form-based selection and 
cookie-setting/g etting 


Exactly. Then you would set the cookie in the script designated by the 
form's action attribute. 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Robert Dumas [ mailto:rdumas at cmj.com <mailto:rdumas at cmj.com> ] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:56 PM 
To: 'NYPHP Talk' 
Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] Simple form-based selection and cookie-setting/g 
etting 



so if I'm reading this right, I want to do something like this? 

<form name="mediaplayerchoice" id="mediaplayerchoice" method="post"> 
        Preferred Media Player:<br /> 
        <label><input type="radio" name="preferredmediaplayer" value="real" 
onclick="document.mediaplayerchoice.submit();return false" /> RealOne 
Player</label><br /> 

        <label><input type="radio" name="preferredmediaplayer" value="wmp" 
onclick="document.mediaplayerchoice.submit();return false" /> Windows Media 
Player</label><br /> 

</form> 

... and that will cause the form to submit the VALUE of whatever radio input

is clicked? 

--RD 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Sexton, David [ mailto:David.SextonJr at ubs.com
<mailto:David.SextonJr at ubs.com>  
< mailto:David.SextonJr at ubs.com <mailto:David.SextonJr at ubs.com> > ] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 3:39 PM 
To: 'NYPHP Talk' 
Subject: RE: [nycphp-talk] Simple form-based selection and 
cookie-setting/g etting 


You are trying to execute PHP code on the client. What you would want to do 
is have Javascript submit the form 
(onClick="document.mediaplayerchoice.submit();"). Then have your setcookie 
call at the top of the processing page... like this: 
  
setcookie("preferredmediaplayer", 
$_POST['preferredmediaplayer'],time()+60*60*24*30,"/player/","cmj.com",0); 
  
Basically, if you view the source of the web page after it loads as it is 
now, there will be no code for the onClick event since the PHP code is 
parsed beforehand and does not output anything. What you will have is the 
cookie value always set to 'wmp' since you are overwriting it each time a 
user hits this form. 
  
HTH... let me know if it's still unclear. 



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