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Danny Massa
27,856 PointsSend <a href=”#”> through checkbox value
Is it possible to send an HTML ancor tag through a checkbox value?
e.g. < input type="checkbox" name="item_offer[]" value="< a href="#" >iPad Air 32GB< /a >" >
Then that value be send through email message as a link? That way when the user receives an email he can click the link and take them to the page?
7 Answers
Jeremy Germenis
29,854 PointsInstead of trying to pass the href tag you can do something like take the value="iPad Air 32GB" and have php add the href tags to the value.
Example: $link = '<a href="#">' . $_POST[item_offer] . '</a>';
Danny Massa
27,856 PointsSweet! Thanks for the reply
I have the href in a while loop
<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() && have_posts() ) : ?>
<label><?php printf( __( "%s's Item's", APP_TD ), $display_user_name ); ?></label><br>
<?php
while( have_posts() ) : the_post(); $i++; ?>
<input type="checkbox" name="item_offer" id="item_offer" value="<?php the_title(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php else : ?>
<p class="text-center"><?php _e( 'Please login to select your items.', APP_TD ); ?></p>
<?php endif;?>
if the client selects 2 checkboxes or 3 checkboxes then there are 3 href links - how do i assign them according to each checkbox they selected
Jeremy Germenis
29,854 PointsYou would set the attribute name to "item_offer[]" which will create an array of item_offers's. You can then traverse through $_POST[item_offers] as an array with a foreach loop.
Danny Massa
27,856 Pointsawesome! Thank you so much jeremy, anyway you can show me an example? :)
Jeremy Germenis
29,854 Points<input name="item_offer[]" value ="http://something.com" />
<input name="item_offer[]" value ="http://something-else.com" />
foreach ($_POST['item_offer'] as $value ) {
echo '<a href="' . $value . '">click here for awesome</a>';
}
Danny Massa
27,856 PointsHmmm, I'm having trouble cause I have
the_title(); - (title of the item in persons inventory) and the_permalink(); - (the link to that item)
the value of the checkbox is the item name e.g. 42" samsung plasma and emailed but I want the the link aswell in the email so ppl can just click the direct link to the item
I can't add the_permalink(); in the value of the checkbox with a href with the title though that would be easy done
<input type="checkbox" name="item_offer[]" value="<?php the_title(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
So i need the link and the name - please help me :(
Jeremy Germenis
29,854 PointsThe title would depend on your structure.
- You could "explode" the value -> value="example.com+MyTitle" (google search "php explode")
- If your products are in a database you could query the db for the title
- If you are using jQuery you could add another attribute
thomascawthorn
22,986 Pointsthomascawthorn
22,986 PointsJust to expand a little more, you'll want to do this in the form processing script - wherever that may be. When the form is submitted the post-processing script can wrap the checkbox value just like Jeremy Germenis suggested and save it in a variable. When you build the body of the email, you can then concatenate the whole link element within the body - making sure you also add spaces either side of the variable! :-)