On Sunday 15 October 2006 22:51, Paul M Foster wrote:
> Daniel Jarboe wrote:
> > Ruby on Rails is way overkill for this... this is pretty basic
> > client-side javascript functionality
> >
> > quick and dirty version below, season to taste
> >
> > <script type="text/javascript">
> > function update(source)
> > { var i,number,temp=""
> > // valid number, no-decimal
> > if ( !isNaN(source.value) && (source.value.indexOf(".")==-1) &&
> > // assign value to number and test greater than 0
> > (number=parseInt(source.value,10))>0 )
> > { for (i=0;i<number;i++)
> > temp+="<input type='text' name='value"+i+"'><br>"
> > document.getElementById("updateMe").innerHTML=temp
> > }
> > else
> > alert("Error: Positive integer required")
> > }
> > </script>
> > <form>
> > How many? <input type=text onchange="update(this)">
> > <div id="updateMe">
> > </div>
> > </form>
>
> Thanks. This works as advertised, though minor changes break it. Hmm.
>
> It's all part of a large project to transfer our invoicing and such from
> FoxPro to PHP/PostgreSQL. Under the circumstances, AJAX and Javascript
> appear to be the ideal solutions to certain problems. I'm just not
> conversant enough with those technologies. So I'm trying to get a leg up
> (or two).
Hi Paul!
If it is in FoxPro now, pose the question on <profox@leafe.com> and see what
answers you get there. Free to subscribe to ProFox. If you hate off-topic
subscribe to the tech version, off-topic posts are filtered out.
Regards,
Pete
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