Member Avatar for Jc

I'm trying to print out form input using getElementById but it doesn't seem to work. Please help.

<?php

$strhtml = 'DomDoc.html';
// create the DOMDocument object, and load HTML from a string
$dochtml = new DOMDocument();
$dochtml->loadHTML($strhtml);

// get the element with id="dv1"
$elm = $dochtml->getElementById('name');

// get the tag name, and content
$cnt = $elm->nodeValue;

echo $cnt;



<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="DomDoc.php" method="post">
    <input id="name" type="text" name="">
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

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Member Avatar for OsaMasw

as @diafol said use loadhtmlfile instead

$file = $DOCUMENT_ROOT. "DomDoc.html";
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTMLFile($file);
$elements = $doc->getElementsByTagName('name');
echo $elements->nodeValue;
Member Avatar for Jc

Thanks. When I call the nodeValue for the div it works but not for the input. I'm trying to send form input by Id to the database.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="divID" name="notWorking">This is not working!</div>
<form action="DomDoc.php" method="post">
    <input id="name" type="text" name="">
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>



<?php
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTMLFile('DomDoc.html');
$div = $dom->getElementById('divID');

echo $div->nodeValue;

?>



<?php
$file = $DOCUMENT_ROOT. "DomDoc.html";
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTMLFile($file);
$elements = $doc->getElementById('name');
echo $elements->nodeValue;
?>
Member Avatar for pritaeas

When I call the nodeValue for the div it works but not for the input.

What exactly does not work? The input with ID name does not have a value, is that your issue?

Member Avatar for Jc

Yes. Even when I put a default value or I input one from the form itself.

Member Avatar for pritaeas

What do you mean "input from the form itself"? That can't work as you are loading the HTML from a file.

I have a feeling you want to do something other than we think you want.

Member Avatar for Jc

I am trying to send data put in the form to mysql database. But Instead of using
$_POST['']
I want to use getElementById('')

Member Avatar for pritaeas

Figured as much. The HTML does not get POSTed as a whole to your script, so there is no way to get what you want like that (unless you use Javascript to send the whole DOM, something I don't recommend).

Member Avatar for diafol

I am trying to send data put in the form to mysql database. But Instead of using
$_POST['']
I want to use getElementById('')

As prit says. But why are you trying to avoid $_POST ? Makes no sense to me. You've misunderstood the point of DOMDoc in this context. Input data is sent to the server usually by POST or GET methods (form, cURL, url querystring, Ajax etc). This is then picked up in the $_POST or $_GET variables.

If you want to do this for cosmetic reasons, then change $_POST to something else, e.g.

$form = $_POST;

You could even do something like this:

//create faux $_POST data:

$_POST['free'] = 1;
$_POST['me'] = 2;
$_POST['to'] = 3;
$_POST['create'] = 4;
$_POST['an'] = 5;
$_POST['object'] = 6;

$form = (object) $_POST;

echo $form->me;
echo $form->create;
Edited by diafol
Member Avatar for Jc

Ok thanks I'm just following orders. The forms I was given don't have name attributes in order for me to use &_POST. This will require me adding a thousand name attributes to each input field everytime the form is changed.

Member Avatar for diafol

What flavour of imbecile doesn't put a name att on the fields? I'm assuming there are 'id' atts. If so, with a decent editor, you could do a smart regex replace:

id="..." to id="..." name="..."

I'll have a play and see if I can get one sorted. However - it will NOT work for all inputs - grouped option buttons need the same name, but they can't have the same id (obviously).

In addition, you'll need to check that you're not adding a name that may already exist elsewhere in the form for a different purpose.

Member Avatar for Jc

Thanks

Member Avatar for diafol

OK, here's a rough and ready preg_replace you can use from a php file.

replace.php

function addName($file, $mode='view')
{
    if(!file_exists($file))
    {
        echo "FILE DOES NOT EXIST";
        return false;
    }

    $f = file_get_contents('form.html');
    $pattern = '#((id)(\s*\=\s*)(["|\']\w*["|\']))#';
    $replacement = "$1 name$3$4";
    $n = preg_replace($pattern,$replacement,$f);
    if($mode == 'write') {
        echo (file_put_contents('form.html', $n) !== false) ? '<h3>FILE CHANGED</h3>' : '<h3>FILE WRITE ERROR</h3>';
    }
    echo "<pre>BEFORE:\n" . htmlentities($f) . "\n\n\nAFTER:\n";
    echo htmlentities($n) . '</pre>';
}


addName('form.html'); //2nd param = nothing or 'write' (back to file) or 'view' (same as nothing)

form.html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head lang="en">
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form>
    <input id = 'blah1' value="10" />
    <input id='blah2' value="20" />
    <input id = "blah3" value="30" />
    <input id="blah4" value="40" />
    <input id= 'blah5' value="50" />
    <input id= "blah6" value="60" />
    <input id ='blah7' value="70" />
    <input id ="blah8" value="80" />
    <input id   = 'blah9' value="90" />

</form>
</body>
</html>

So all you need to do is locate the form files and place the relative reference (relative path) into the function and run it:

addName('../forms/form34.html');

Still not sure I understood this:

This will require me adding a thousand name attributes to each input field everytime the form is changed.

Each input field should only ever have one name attribute. When you say "form is changed", what do you mean?

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