[pumpkinapo]

I'm working on a web based project time tracking system and have run into an issue I can't solve. I need to sum up the time textfields. The issue is the textfields all have the same name. Is there a way I can iterate through the textfields and add their values?

[clam2000]

yes

when you think about it this is the same as trying to deal with a select menu that has more then one item selected.

if each of them is 'time[]' it becomes an array when you are dealing with it. (so you can call them as time[0]+time[1]+...)

This worked for me using PHP as the back-end. In javascript you can take a shortcut and refer by element#:

Code:
document.forms[0].elements[0];

I would be happy to show you how to import it into php if you need to know that.

--will

[sjdownes]

Using the elements array would work, but that's a fragile way to do things, subject to breaking every time you add a new form element.

My question would be why on earth are all the time text fields named the same thing?

[pumpkinapo]

I'm using the W3C's DOM cloneNode() to duplicate the entry row. This created an identical row with all the field objects but with the same name.

http://www.apoforum.com/time/time.html
(I'm developing this app on a windows computer and don't know what mac browsers it'll work in since it doesn't seem to work in firebird's 8/3 build only IE 6.)

[pumpkinapo]

I'm all good. I found my solution here:
http://www.pxl8.com/cloneNode_name_id.html