I have used Javascript to enable or disable a button, depending on the input value. I'm new to PHP, so I don't know why this isn't working. Here's the PHP code:
<?php
session_start();
include_once('header.php');
include_once('functions.php');
$_SESSION['userid'] = 1;
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Microblogging Application</title>
</head>
vbody>
<?php
if (isset($_SESSION['message'])){
echo "<b>". $_SESSION['message']."</b>";
unset($_SESSION['message']);
}
?>
<form method='post' action='add.php'>
<p>Your status:</p>
<textarea name='body' rows='5' cols='40' wrap=VIRTUAL></textarea>
<input type="text" name="age" />
<input type="text" name="poscode" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Post" disabled="disabled"/>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
$('input[name="age"], input[name="poscode"]').change(function(){
if ($(this).val())
{
$("input[name='submit']").removeAttr('disabled');
}
});
</script>
<?php
$posts = show_posts($_SESSION['userid']);
if (count($posts)){
?>
<table border='1' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='5' width='500'>
<?php
foreach ($posts as $key => $list){
echo "<tr valign='top'>
";
echo "<td>".$list['body'] ."<br/>
";
echo "<small>".$list['stamp'] ."</small></td>
";
echo "</tr>
";
}
?>
</table>
<?php
}else{
?>
<p><b>You haven't posted anything yet!</b></p>
<?php
}
?>
</body>
</html>
How do I change it so when the value of the input = "foo", the button is now clickable.
Thanks in advance
-Ben
I can't make sense of your question, but if you're asking what I think you're asking (which is "how do I enable the button if the form is populated on page load?"), change your script to the following:
$.ready(function(){
$('input[name="age"], input[name="poscode"]').change(function(){
if ($(this).val())
{
$("input[name='submit']").removeAttr('disabled');
}
}).change();
});
I added the change call to trigger the change event handler, and wrapped it in jQuery's ready handler.
Try using the attr function like below
$('#element').attr('disabled', true);
Or
$('#element').attr('disabled', false);
Because different browsers treat the disbaled attribute differently, using true and false lets jquery handle the cross browser issues