Felocity

"The buttons aren't styling" I remarked as I stared at the page in Camino and Safari. Testing on the Mac platform has been the absolute bane of my existence as of late, mostly because for some reason, these browsers in particular are very protective of their form widgets. Coming back to Cameron Adams' Entry on Styling Form Widgets, I found that none of the Macromedia examples were actually working for Camino/Safari, although they looked beautiful in Firefox. The submit button simply would not take the background settings. Interesting enough though, something of input type="button" styled perfectly.

However, the value attribute of the button wasn't getting passed in. For the legacy code around Gaia, we have forms with more than one possible "submit" for an action. The most common case of this is preview and submit buttons we traditionally use in the forums. This left us with two scenarios:…

This is part two in the PHP Transaction Manager Series. You may also find the related entries in this series of interest:

• Part 1: Touching the Surface - Theory
• Part 2: Architecture and Components

Note: This article was written under the guise of PHP 4, which lacks a lot of object related functionality that would be beneficial to the development of the code used in these examples.…