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[nycphp-talk] Form names

Jim Musil jim at nettmedia.com
Tue Dec 10 10:50:41 EST 2002


Out of curiosity, what scenario are you in that you can't either make a new
form or edit the current HTML?

Jim

On 12/10/02 10:03 AM, "Timothy P Sailer" <sailer at bnl.gov> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:56:20AM -0500, Freedman, Tom S. wrote:
>> Of course, doing all that is contingent on being able to modify the HTML
>> forms, which, from your question, I gather you can't do.  Your only other
>> real option is to look at what elements you DO get back, and try to pick a
>> processing routine based on that (e.g. if I have A & B but not C, use the
>> processing code for form 2).  That's a huge pain in the butt, but that's
>> HTML for ya.
> 
> *All* the  forms have the same &^$^% names for the elements. Talk about
> frigging poor design. "The forms are named to make post-processing easy."
> Right. Idiots.
> 
> Tim




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