Question

HTML form calculations to have seperate totals for seperate sections in one form

Asked by: crystalwolf

Hi,
I am in charge of setting up an assessment form for a website.  This form has 2 sections where there are checkboxes that hold numeric values.  These values must be added up at the end of each section.
(ie: Section 1: 10 questions - total of the 10 questions shown at the bottom of the section
Section 2: 12 questions - total of section 2 only shown at the bottom of the that section)

Then all form choices and totals to be submitted.

I have a PHP form handler submitting the information and currently I have a .js file processing the calculation in section 1 - but I have no idea how to differentiate the script to process the second calculation of section 2 without including section 1 in the calculations.

Here is the .js I am using as a separate file:

// Calculate the total for items in the form which are selected.
function calculateTotal(inputItem) {
  with (inputItem.form) {
    // Process each of the different input types in the form.
    if (inputItem.type == "radio") {   // Process radio buttons.
      // Subtract the previously selected radio button value from the total.
      calculatedTotal.value = eval(calculatedTotal.value) - eval(previouslySelectedRadioButton.value);
      // Save the current radio selection value.
      previouslySelectedRadioButton.value = eval(inputItem.value);
      // Add the current radio button selection value to the total.
      calculatedTotal.value = eval(calculatedTotal.value) + eval(inputItem.value);
    } else {   // Process check boxes.
      if (inputItem.checked == false) {   // Item was uncheck. Subtract item value from total.
          calculatedTotal.value = eval(calculatedTotal.value) - eval(inputItem.value);
      } else {   // Item was checked. Add the item value to the total.
          calculatedTotal.value = eval(calculatedTotal.value) + eval(inputItem.value);
      }
    }

    // Total value should never be less than 0.
    if (calculatedTotal.value < 0) {
      InitForm();
    }

    // Return total value.
    return(calculatedTotal.value);
  }
}


// This function initialzes all the form elements to default values.
function InitForm() {
  // Reset values on form.
  document.selectionForm.total.value='0';
  document.selectionForm.calculatedTotal.value=0;
  document.selectionForm.previouslySelectedRadioButton.value=0;

  // Set all checkboxes and radio buttons on form to unchecked.
  for (i=0; i < document.selectionForm.elements.length; i++) {
    if (document.selectionForm.elements[i].type == 'checkbox' | document.selectionForm.elements[i].type == 'radio') {
      document.selectionForm.elements[i].checked = false;
    }
  }
}

This script works, but produces an error-not sure why (I'm no genius where JS is concerned), but it calculates it and the total is submitted in the email which is great.  Now I just need to figure how to do a separate one for section 2.

The HTML page is here - if you need the code:
http://www.leveragetosucceed.com/get-help-now-assessment-2-draft.html

Thank you for any help you can give me on this issue.



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2007-04-12 at 22:17:52ID22509011
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Answers

 

by: wildzeroPosted on 2007-04-13 at 00:08:12ID: 18903827

From what I can see, do this
add a second field at the bottom of the page - this will be the result of the second lot of tick boxes.
Call it
do this :-)

<input type="hidden" name="calculatedTotalb" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="previouslySelectedRadioButtonb" value="0">
<strong>Your total is:</strong>
<input type="text" name="totalb" readonly onfocus="this.blur();">

after all the second set of check boxes

then put this on all checkboxes

like this
<input name="If_I_want_something_done" type="checkbox" value="2" onclick="this.form.totalb.value=calculateTotalb(this);">

then in your javascript file add this

function calculateTotalb(inputItem) {
  with (inputItem.form) {
    // Process each of the different input types in the form.
    if (inputItem.type == "radio") {   // Process radio buttons.
      // Subtract the previously selected radio button value from the total.
      calculatedTotalb.value = eval(calculatedTotalb.value) - eval(previouslySelectedRadioButton.value);
      // Save the current radio selection value.
      previouslySelectedRadioButtonb.value = eval(inputItem.value);
      // Add the current radio button selection value to the total.
      calculatedTotalb.value = eval(calculatedTotalb.value) + eval(inputItem.value);
    } else {   // Process check boxes.
      if (inputItem.checked == false) {   // Item was uncheck. Subtract item value from total.
          calculatedTotalb.value = eval(calculatedTotalb.value) - eval(inputItem.value);
      } else {   // Item was checked. Add the item value to the total.
          calculatedTotalb.value = eval(calculatedTotalb.value) + eval(inputItem.value);
      }
    }

    // Total value should never be less than 0.
    if (calculatedTotalb.value < 0) {
      InitForm();
    }

    // Return total value.
    return(calculatedTotalb.value);
  }
}

and replace this
  // Reset values on form.
  document.selectionForm.total.value='0';
  document.selectionForm.calculatedTotal.value=0;
  document.selectionForm.previouslySelectedRadioButton.value=0;

with this
  // Reset values on form.
  document.selectionForm.total.value='0';
  document.selectionForm.calculatedTotal.value=0;
  document.selectionForm.previouslySelectedRadioButton.value=0;
  document.selectionForm.totalb.value='0';
  document.selectionForm.calculatedTotalb.value=0;
  document.selectionForm.previouslySelectedRadioButtonb.value=0;


That should do it

 

by: wildzeroPosted on 2007-04-13 at 00:09:04ID: 18903828

after all the second set of check boxes

then put this on all checkboxes ** ON ALL THE SECOND SET ONLY**
onclick="this.form.totalb.value=calculateTotalb(this);"

like this
<input name="If_I_want_something_done" type="checkbox" value="2" onclick="this.form.totalb.value=calculateTotalb(this);">

 

by: stanscott2Posted on 2007-04-13 at 19:54:59ID: 18909585

Let me suggest a simpler approach.  Wrap each section of the form in span tags and deal with them separately:

<span id="section1">
   <input...
   <input...
   <input...
</span>

<span id="section2">
   <input...
   <input...
   <input...
</span>

Currently, you have a CalculateTotal routine that acts on an individual item.  I would change this, so that CalculateTotal returns the total for a section, like this:

when I'm ready to get totals, I do this:

var total1 = calculateTotal("section1");
var total2 = calculateTotal("section2");

and the revised routine:

function calculateTotal(sp) {
    var curSpan = document.getElementByid(sp);   // either section 1 or section 2
    var allInputs = curSpan.getElementsByTagName("input");   // get all of the input items in that section
    var total = 0;  // initialize
    for (var t=0; t<allInputs.length; t++) {
        var curInput = allInputs[t];
        switch (curInput.type) {
             case "radio":
                  if (curInput.selected) total += curInput.value;
                 break;
             case "checkbox":
                  if (curInput.checked) total += curInput.value;
                  break;
             case default:    // or explicitly check for text type;
                 if (!isNaN(curInput.value)) total += curInput.value;
                 break;
        }
    }
    return total;
}

You can now take the stored values in total1 and total2 and send them out for processing.

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