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Using form helper? Is there a way to modify the DOM? - richb201 - 09-21-2020
I have a form that I created. It is called http://localhost/index.php/FormUserBackend. Near the top I want to append some radio buttons. So I tried this:
form_open('views/User_Activity_Survey.php');
$str=form_checkbox( "test1", "Question1",FALSE, "class=form-checkbox id=input_4_3 name=q4_whichOf[]" );
echo ($str);
$str=form_checkbox( "test2", "Question2",FALSE, "class=form-checkbox id=input_4_3 name=q4_whichOf[]" );
echo ($str);
$str=form_checkbox( "test3", "Question3",FALSE, "class=form-checkbox id=input_4_3 name=q4_whichOf[]" );
echo ($str);
form_fieldset_close();
$this->load->view('User_Activity_Survey.php');
Bur when I look at the output in the browser, none of these appended fields display. So I decided to look in the output window and I do see them near the top:
X-Powered-By: PHP/7.2.32
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Set-Cookie: cisession=hbmpjleolom8fuaqdnri0ch1abf0b5cf; expires=Tue, 22-Sep-2020 01:42:18 GMT; Max-Age=28800; path=/; HttpOnly
Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
<input type="checkbox" name="test1" value="Question1" class=form-checkbox id=input_4_3 name=q4_whichOf[] />
<input type="checkbox" name="test2" value="Question2" class=form-checkbox id=input_4_3 name=q4_whichOf[] />
<input type="checkbox" name="test3" value="Question3" class=form-checkbox id=input_4_3 name=q4_whichOf[] />
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en-US" class="supernova"><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/json+oembed" href="https://www.jotform.com/oembed/?format=json&url=https%3A%2F%2Fform.jotform.com%2F202597294899073" title="oEmbed Form">
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml+oembed" href="https://www.jotform.com/oembed/?format=xml&a
etc.
They are in the wrong place. Is there some built in tools in CI to manipulate the DOM? This might be better than blindly prepending some checkboxes.
RE: Using form helper? Is there a way to modify the DOM? - Natanchikk - 09-21-2020
Hello, as an option for positioning, try creating a header view with the appropriate content. Connect it first, and then your form.
RE: Using form helper? Is there a way to modify the DOM? - richb201 - 09-21-2020
So I figure that I needed to modify the DOM. I found this package which will let me modify the DOM from PHP: PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser. The question is when do I do this? I can load the entire view file into a string, modify it, and then "Dump the internal DOM tree back into a string. If the $filename is set, result string will save to file". I am concerned because this is multi user system. I could surely keep the $string in a session, but how do then get load_view() to display it?
RE: Using form helper? Is there a way to modify the DOM? - vitnibel - 09-21-2020
Hi,
the output of the form in the view at a specific place can be done like this:
PHP Code:
$form = form_open('views/User_Activity_Survey.php');
$form .= form_checkbox( "test1", "Question1",FALSE, "class=form-checkbox id=input_4_3 name=q4_whichOf[]" );
$form .= form_checkbox( "test2", "Question2",FALSE, "class=form-checkbox id=input_4_3 name=q4_whichOf[]" );
$form .= form_checkbox( "test3", "Question3",FALSE, "class=form-checkbox id=input_4_3 name=q4_whichOf[]" );
$form .= form_fieldset_close();
$this->load->view('User_Activity_Survey.php', ['form' => $form]);
and in the place you need of User_Activity_Survey.php:
PHP Code:
<?php echo $form; ?>RE: Using form helper? Is there a way to modify the DOM? - ojmichael - 09-22-2020
The DOM doesn't really exist server-side, until the page is rendered in the browser it's really just a string of text. You need to render your form at the correct point of the markup, either using a variable as indicated above or by creating a view for the form and using the form helper functions directly there.
RE: Using form helper? Is there a way to modify the DOM? - richb201 - 09-24-2020
Thanks OJ. I managed to get it going using koolreport's input library.
RE: Using form helper? Is there a way to modify the DOM? - InsiteFX - 09-24-2020
The HTML DOM (Document Object Model)