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[Aaron Fischer]

Hey Josh,

It would depend on how you have your form page and php processing set 
up.  How do you have your logic set up?  Do you have the form as one 
page and the php processing as a separate file, or are they both in the 
same file?

Aaron


On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 09:05 US/Eastern, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:

> Hi Aaron,
>
> So... if, in my form, I want both the date to both be part of my form 
> input
> as well as displayed on the page when the page is loaded, how do I 
> write
> that code?
>
>
> Say I have a webpage 'waspsurvey.php3' that contains my form.
>
> When a surveyor loads that page in his/her browser, the form is 
> displayed
> for the surveyor to fill out.
>
> At a point on the form, there is the parameter 'Date:'  so, I'd want
> ' $date = date("Y-m-d");
>   print "$date";'
> in waspsurvey.php3 so that the date will print in the page.. but.. 
> what do I
> do to capture "$date" so that it becomes part of my form input?  <input
> type="hidden" name="date" value="$date"> ?
>
> J.
>
>
> the On 5/27/03 8:20 AM, "Aaron Fischer" <agfische at email.smith.edu> 
> wrote:
>
>> For date, In your php script that handles the form, you can do
>> something like:
>>
>> $date = date("Y-m-d");
>>
>> Then you can insert $date along with your other form variables into 
>> the
>> mysql table.
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>>
>>>
>>>> Another point of confusion... one of the fields in the survey form
>>>> is 'survey_date'.
>>>>
>>>> I have field of type 'date' in my 'specimen' table... I'd like to 
>>>> have
>>>> the 'survey_date' be handled automagically for the surveyor by PHP 
>>>> and
>>>> MySQL..
>>>> any suggestions on how best to accomplish that?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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