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Php preg_replace to set checkbox to checked and readonly

The code below searches for an input field with a specified id value and replaces the whole field with some text. How can I instead use similar code set a checkbox to checked and readonly? Instead of replacing the whole field I need to add these parameters; not sure if it should be:

<input type="checkbox" name="somename" id="someid" value="1" checked readonly />
or
<input type="checkbox" name="somename" id="someid" value="1" checked disabled="disabled" />
or
<input type="checkbox" name="somename" id="someid" value="1" checked="checked" disabled="disabled" />

$html = preg_replace('#<input(?=[^>]*id="some_field_id_value")[^>]*>#', 'some_text', $html);

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Ray Paseur

You can see how these form controls work here on my server:
http://www.laprbass.com/RAY_temp_ncw.php

If you can give us a little context about what you're trying to do, maybe we can help more.

<?php // RAY_temp_ncw.php
error_reporting(E_ALL);

var_dump($_GET);

$form = <<<FORM
<form>
<input type="checkbox" name="somename" id="someid" value="1" checked readonly />
<input type="checkbox" name="somename" id="someid" value="1" checked disabled="disabled" />
<input type="checkbox" name="somename" id="someid" value="1" checked="checked" disabled="disabled" />

<input type="submit" />
</form>
FORM;

echo $form;

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ncw

ASKER

Hi Ray,

Both of your last 2 checkbox fields, as in the code, below seem to be cross-browser compatible, at least for FF6, IE8, Chrome, and Safari on Vista, so I think for consistency I'll run with your last option.

The other part of my question was how can I search for <input type="checkbox" name="somename" id="someid" value="1" /> in some html and replace with <input type="checkbox" name="somename" id="someid" value="1" checked="checked" disabled="disabled" /> using preg_replace. I'm actually using a function as shown below, so I need to search in the html string for an input field with specified id value and add the checked and disabled parameters just before ' />'.

I could do a str_replace but that would have to assume the type, name, id, and value properties where in a constant order.

<input type="checkbox" name="somename" id="someid" value="1" checked disabled="disabled" />
<input type="checkbox" name="somename" id="someid" value="1" checked="checked" disabled="disabled" />

function set_checkbox_readonly($search_field_id, $html, $checked = false) {
  $replace_value = ' disabled="disabled"';
  if($checked == true){
    $replace_value .= ' checked="checked"';
  }
  return preg_replace('#.....#i', $replace_value, $html);
}

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Ray Paseur

Hmm... I guess the rules are this:

Must have <input
Followed by id=
Maybe "
-the id string-
Maybe "
followed by a group of />

Replace group with checked="checked" disabled="disabled" />

Does that sound right?

Sidebar note... Cross-browser compatibility may be enhanced if you use the HTML5 declaration like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">

HTML5 is a lot more permissive than Loose, Transitional or Strict.

Ray Paseur

Do me a favor and please post the test data you want me to operate on, thanks.

ncw

ASKER

I really need the pattern to search for a string starting with '<input' and ending with '>' that contains 'id="someid"' and replace 'id="someid"' with 'id="someid" checked="checked" disabled="disabled"'.

If this can't be done in one preg_replace statement then may be I should be using preg_match first, in which case the bit I need help with please is the pattern to find the string starting with '<input', containing 'id="someid"' and ending with '>', the rest I could do.

Btw at the moment I'm using
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Ray Paseur

One more time... Do me a favor and please post the test data you want me to operate on, thanks. I think I understand what we want to do - I just don't want to make assumptions about the inputs.

ncw

ASKER

There's not really anymore info to add.

Ray Paseur

One last time... Do me a favor and please post the test data you want me to operate on, thanks. I do not mind writing the code for you, but I am busy and I don't have time to try to guess what you might have for input.

ncw

ASKER

Ok this is not going anywhere, the data is not in a format that I can readily post. all the required info is here in the question, I only need assistance with the pattern match code thank you.

Ray Paseur

If you can't post the data you have, please make up something -- just a representative test case -- that you can post. Or tell me where I can read a file that has something you want to process.

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ncw

ASKER

I think I've solved it with the function below.

function tep_set_checkbox_readonly($search_field_id, $html, $checked = false) {
   $checked = ($checked)?' checked="checked"':'';
   return preg_replace('/<input([^>]+)(?!(id="'.$search_field_id.'"))([^>]+)\/>/i','<input$1 $2'.$checked.' disabled="disabled" />',$html);
}

<input type="checkbox" name="glued" id="glued" value="1" />

becomes:

<input type="checkbox" name="glued" id="glued" value="1"  checked="checked" disabled="disabled" />

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ncw

ASKER

Unfortunately my solution updated all checkboxes in the html.

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My comment was the solution for me.