PHP Help - Consecutive Numbering

[CMYKreative]

I'm trying to hide some specific <tr> rows on the registration form in Virtuemart that are not needed, but there is no way to 'target' them as it uses the same piece of coding to create all the rows.

What we have at the moment is:

echo ' <table class="adminForm user-details">' . "\n";
$_table = true;
}
echo ' <tr>' . "\n";
echo ' <td class="key" title="'.$_field['description'].'" >' . "\n";
echo ' <label class="' . $_field['name'] . '" for="' . $_field['name'] . '_field">' . "\n";
echo ' ' . $_field['title'] . ($_field['required'] ? ' *' : '') . "\n";

Where the td class is simply called "key" and all td are then called the same. We are trying to add in some consecutive lettering functionality so that each row then gets labelled with a consecutive number.

We've tried adding this into the top of the page:

<?php
// array('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i');
foreach (range('a', 'z') as $letter)
?>
Which does generate consecutive letters, and then this change to the code:

echo ' <td class="key td-id-'.$letter.'" title="'.$_field['description'].'" >' . "\n";

Any thoughts on how to get this to work?

Thanks in advance!

[mistin.ca]

auto increment of ++ works on lettering. start with $letter = "a";

once you've used it, $letter++; and it turns to b.

$letter = "a";
foreach($x AS $y) {
echo ' <td class="key td-id-'.$letter.'" title="'.$_field['description'].'" >' . "\n";
$letter++;
}

[CMYKreative]

I tried that, but it hides the first column, what did I do wrong?:

echo ' <table class="adminForm user-details">' . "\n";
$_table = true;
}
echo ' <tr>' . "\n";


$letter = "a";
foreach($x AS $y) {
echo ' <td class="key td-id-'.$letter.'" title="'.$_field['description'].'" >' . "\n";
$letter++;
}

echo ' <label class="' . $_field['name'] . '" for="' . $_field['name'] . '_field">' . "\n";
echo ' ' . $_field['title'] . ($_field['required'] ? ' *' : '') . "\n";
echo ' </label>' . "\n";
echo ' </td>' . "\n";
echo ' <td>' . "\n";
echo ' ' . $_field['formcode'] . "\n";
echo ' </td>' . "\n";
echo ' </tr>' . "\n";
}
}

if ($_table) {
echo ' </table>' . "\n";
}

[CMYKreative]

OK, I found a quick and easy solution:

echo ' <tr class="key td-id-' . $_field['name'] . '">' . "\n";

I just added the existing ' . $_field['name'] . ' code to the tr and I was then able to target this in the way I wanted.

Thanks for the help!

[NogDog]

If feasible, I would make that an ID attribute instead of CLASS, since that is its purpose: to uniquely identify that element. So you might keep the single class name for all those elements so that you can use that for common CSS attributes, then access the specific ID(s) for special treatment of those elements.

echo ' <tr class="key" id="'.$_field['name'].'">' 

[CMYKreative]

Good point, thanks for all the help!