Calling and Declaring a select box in PHP!
I want to be able to change the color of my websites background depending on which option the user chooses.
I have this code for my select box:
&开发者_如何学编程lt;select name="change_date" >
<option value="1" id="1">1</option>
<option value="2" id="2">2</option>
<option value="3" id="3">3</option>
</select>
Using PHP, how would i get it so that it simply changed to red for 1, green for 2 and pink for 3?
This is the code I have tried (unsuccessfully and complete guesswork):
<?php
if(isset($_POST['change_date'])=='1' )
{
echo "<body style='background-color:red;'></body>";
}else{
echo "failed";
}
if(isset($_POST['change_date'])=='2' )
{
echo "<body style='background-color:green;'></body>";
}else{
echo "failed";
}
if(isset($_POST['change_date'])=='3' )
{
echo "<body style='background-color:pink;'></body>";
}else{
echo "failed";
}
?>
Any suggestions? methods? links?
UPDATE: I have tried all methods and none seem to work guys. It must be something I am doing wrong. What i want is when the user chooses and option ie 1,2 or 3 and clicks send, then the color will change. Hope this helps more. I forgot to add before that I want a send button to have to be clicked then all the clever stuff happens. Thanks
if (isset($_POST['change_date']))
{
switch ($_POST['change_date'])
{
case 1: $color = 'red'; break;
case 2: $color = 'green'; break;
case 3: $color = 'pink'; break;
default: die('failed');
}
echo "<body style='background-color:$color;'></body>";
}
Use a switch:
$color = !empty($_POST['change_date'])?$_POST['change_date']:0;
switch ($color) {
default:
case 1:
echo "pink";
break;
case 2:
echo "orange";
break;
}
Should do what you want. Plenty of other ways to do it with arrays etc. Just the way I chose to show you :)
EDIT: Array Method
$colors = array(1 => 'pink', 2 => 'orange');
$color = !empty($_POST['change_date'])?$_POST['change_date']:1;
echo "<body style='background-color:" . $colors[$color] . ";'></body>";
Both should work, pending any errors I made.
your PHP code only works if the variable "change_date" comes from a query string via a POST method...
Do you need to set the color on the fly? or after sending a form?
You're problem is in your use of isset. This function simple returns a boolean value, not the value of the field. Try the below:
if(isset($_POST['change_date']))
{
switch($_POST['change_date'])
{
case 1:
echo "<body style='background-color:red;'></body>";
break;
case 2:
echo "<body style='background-color:green;'></body>";
break;
case 3:
echo "<body style='background-color:pink;'></body>";
break;
default:
echo "<body style='background-color:white;'></body>";
}
}
else
{
echo "<body style='background-color:white;'></body>";
}
Another way could be, if you dont wanna use switch statement ,
$color = isset($_POST['change_date']))?$_POST['change_date']:0;
if($color){
if($color == 1) echo "<body style='background-color:red;'></body>";
if($color == 2) echo "<body style='background-color:green;'></body>";
if($color == 3) echo "<body style='background-color:pink;'></body>";
}
Try a value map array, and as pointed out in one of the other answers it might be GET instead of POST, so I'm using $_REQUEST as example:
<?php
$colors = array(
1 => "red",
2 => "green",
3 => "pink",
);
if ($c = $colors[ $_REQUEST["change_date"] ])
{
echo "<body style='background-color: $c;'>body</body>";
}
else {
echo "failed";
}
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