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7.2

Choosing a radio button to select the colour of a table in an XML page

Asked by Liam_H in PHP Scripting Language, Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Tags: PHP, XML, XSL

Hi.

I have 2 PHP pages, a XML page and a XLS page. Both the XML and XLS pages are blank with no code in them. What these pages do is as follows;

The first PHP page has a form with a clock. The form has radio buttons that format how the clock is set out. There is also one more set of radio buttons which ask the user to select a colour. When the user clicks the cubmit button, they are taken to the second PHP page.

On this page is the clock again and a confirmation of the colour they selected. In the background of these two pages are information to create both the XML and XSL documents. The second page contains the code to create the XSL document and style the XML doc. Hope your still with me!

What I am trying to do, and currently failing with is the colour selector radio buttons. When the user clicks one of these buttons, it goes to the second page with no problem confirming what colour they selected. However, I want this colour to be the background colour for the table that is created by the XSL doc for the XML doc.

I have a feeling I have to announce somewhere that the colours with the radio button are actually colours and not just words, but is this done by creating a CSS page and directing the XSL to that? Here's the relevent code;
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-----------------------------
First Page
 
<!-- create the form and create action to send data to secondpage.php -->
<form name= "form" action = "second.php" method = "get">
<!-- fieldset with radio buttons to select the colour of columns -->
<fieldset>
<legend>Colour selector </legend>
<p>
 
<!-- radio buttons that will change the colour of the columns -->
 
<input type="radio" name="colour" value="chocolate" onclick="colour(this)" /> Chocolate
<input type="radio" name="colour" value="forestgreen" onclick="colour(this)" /> Forest Green
<input type="radio" name="colour" value="turquoise" onclick="colour(this)" /> Turquoise
</p>
 
<!-- close fieldset tag -->
</fieldset>
<!-- submit button that when clicked loads the second page and sends with it data from the form -->
 
<input type="submit" value="Submit form" onclick ="validateform()"/> //validate form is not currently set up
 
<!-- the reset button that resets the form -->
 
<input type="reset" value="Reset the Form"  />
 
<!-- close the form tag -->
</form>
 
-------------------------------------------------
second page
 
//code to create the XSL StyleSheet starts here
 
$handle=fopen("style.xsl","w");
 
fwrite($handle,'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<xsl:template match="/">');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" >');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<head>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'</head>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<body>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<h1>The XML file</h1>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
//Table is created here
fwrite($handle,'<table border="3" bgcolor="$colour">'); //HAVE PLACED BACKGROUND COLOUR IN HERE
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<tr>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<th>Prizes</th>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<th>Dinosaur</th>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<th>hhh</th>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<th>sss</th>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<th>fat</th>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<th>far</th>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<th>fill</th>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<th>fall</th>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'</tr>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
// reads the xml file from where it says getdata
 
fwrite($handle,'<xsl:for-each select="getdata/data">');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
// sort the data by pizes column
 
fwrite($handle,'<xsl:sort select="prizes"/>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<tr>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
// selects the prizes column to be displayed
 
fwrite($handle,'<td><xsl:value-of select="prizes"/></td>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<td><xsl:value-of select="dinosaur"/></td>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<td><xsl:value-of select="hhh"/></td>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<td><xsl:value-of select="sss"/></td>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<td><xsl:value-of select="fat"/></td>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<td><xsl:value-of select="far"/></td>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<td><xsl:value-of select="fill"/></td>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'<td><xsl:value-of select="fall"/></td>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'</tr>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
// closes the for each
 
fwrite($handle,'</xsl:for-each>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'</table>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'</body>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'</html>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'</xsl:template>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fwrite($handle,'</xsl:stylesheet>');
 
fwrite($handle,"\n");
 
fflush($handle); //empty the memory
 
fclose($handle); //close the file for writing
?>
 
HTML here...
 
<?php
 
$colour= $_REQUEST['colour']; //request and print which radio button has been selected for the colour from index.php
print "<p>The colour you selected is: $colour\n</p>\n";
 
?>
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