Title: PHP and forms
Last modified: August 30, 2016

---

# PHP and forms

 *  Resolved [Galaxy_High](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galaxy_high/)
 * (@galaxy_high)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-and-forms/)
 * Hello everyone,
 * I have created a form that allows visitors to my site choose how they want the
   posts to be displayed. They can order by **title**, **date**, **modified**, **
   rand **and by **comment_count** in either **ascending **or **descending **order.
 * When a visitor clicks a link the changes made previously revert back to their
   default state. How do I make the browser remember the selection?
 * I am using a switch / case statements at the moment… should I be using if’s?
 * Here is my code:
 *     ```
       <?php
       echo '<div id="refine">';
       echo '<p>Sorted ';
   
       switch ($_POST['selection']){
   
       	case 'title':
       		echo $_POST['title'] . ' <strong>alphabeticly</strong>';
       		$orderby = "title";
       		break;
   
       	case 'date':
       		echo $_POST['date'] . ' by <strong>date posted</strong>';
       		$orderby = "date";
       		break;
   
       	case 'modified':
       		echo $_POST['modified'] . ' by <strong>date modified</strong>';
       		$orderby = "modified";
       		break;
   
       	case 'rand':
       		echo $_POST['rand'] . ' <strong>randomly</strong>';
       		$orderby = "rand";
       		break;
   
       	case 'comment_count':
       		echo $_POST['comment_count'] . ' by <strong>popularity</strong>';
       		$orderby = "comment_count";
       		break;
   
       	default:
       		echo ' <strong>alphabeticly</strong>';
       		break;
       	}
   
       echo ' in <strong>';
   
       switch ($_POST['order']){
   
       	case 'Acsending':
       		echo $_POST['Acsending'] . 'ascending';
       		break;
   
       	case 'Decending':
       		echo $_POST['Decending'] . 'descending';
       		break;
   
       	default:
       		echo 'ascending';
       		break;
       	}
   
       echo '</strong> order</p>';
   
       if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST"){
       	if ($_POST['order'] == "Acsending"){$order = "asc";}
       	elseif ($_POST['order'] == "Decending"){$order = "desc";}
       	}
   
       ?>
   
       <form id="selection" action="" method="post">
       	<select name="selection">
       		<option name="title" value="title" <?php echo (isset($_GET['selection']) && $_GET['selection'] == 'title') ? ' selected="selected"' : '' ; ?>>Alphabetic</option>
       		<option name="date" value="date" <?php if(!isset($_GET['submit']) && $_GET['submit'] == 'date') { echo 'selected="selected"' ;} ?>>Posted</option>
       		<option name="modified" value="modified" <?php echo (isset($_GET['selection']) && $_GET['selection'] == 'modified') ? ' selected="selected"' : '' ; ?>>Modified</option>
       		<option name="rand" value="rand" <?php echo (isset($_GET['selection']) && $_GET['selection'] == 'rand') ? ' selected="selected"' : '' ; ?>>Random</option>
       		<option name="comment_count" value="comment_count" <?php echo (isset($_GET['selection']) && $_GET['selection'] == 'comment_count') ? ' selected="selected"' : '' ; ?>>Popularity</option>
       		</select>
       	<input type="submit" name="order" value="Acsending">
       	<input type="submit" name="order" value="Decending">
       	</form>
   
       <?php
   
       echo '</div><!--end refine-->';
   
       $orderby = 'title';
       $order = 'asc';
   
       $cats = array(2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ,7, 8, 9, 10);
       foreach ($cats as $c){
       	$posts = query_posts($query_string . '&orderby=' . $orderby . '&order=' . $order . '&cat=' . $c);
   
       if($posts) :
       	while (have_posts()) :
       		the_post();
       ?>
   
       [html content]
       ```
   
 * Thanks for looking,
    Sam

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

 *  Thread Starter [Galaxy_High](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galaxy_high/)
 * (@galaxy_high)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-and-forms/#post-6381516)
 * I got my page to remember which &order= to remember by creating a cookie session.
   Still struggling with the &orderby= cookie.
 * Any takers?
 *     ```
       <?php
       echo '<div id="refine">';
       echo '<p>Sorted ';
   
       switch ($_POST['selection']) {
   
       case 'title':
       echo $_POST['title'] . ' <strong>alphabetically</strong>';
       $orderby = "title";
       break;
   
       case 'date':
       echo $_POST['date'] . ' by <strong>date posted</strong>';
       $orderby = "date";
       break;
   
       case 'modified':
       echo $_POST['modified'] . ' by <strong>date modified</strong>';
       $orderby = "modified";
       break;
   
       case 'rand':
       echo $_POST['rand'] . ' <strong>randomly</strong>';
       $orderby = "rand";
       break;
   
       case 'comment_count':
       echo $_POST['comment_count'] . ' by <strong>popularity</strong>';
       $orderby = "comment_count";
       break;
   
       default:
       echo ' <strong>alphabetically</strong>';
       break;
   
       }
   
       echo ' in <strong>';
   
       switch ($_POST['order']) {
   
       case 'Ascending':
       echo $_POST['Ascending'] . 'ascending';
       break;
   
       case 'Descending':
       echo $_POST['Descending'] . 'descending';
       break;
   
       default:
       echo 'ascending';
       break;
   
       }
   
       echo '</strong> order</p>';
   
       if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST"){
       	if ($_POST['order'] == "Ascending"){$order = "asc";}
       	elseif ($_POST['order'] == "Descending"){$order = "desc";}
       	}
       ?>
   
       <form id="selection" action="" method="post">
       <select name="selection">
       <option name="title" value="title">Alphabetic</option>
       <option name="date" value="date">Posted</option>
       <option name="modified" value="modified">Modified</option>
       <option name="rand" value="rand">Random</option>
       <option name="comment_count" value="comment_count">Popularity</option>
       </select>
       <input type="submit" name="order" value="Ascending" title="Ascending">
       <input type="submit" name="order" value="Descending" title="Descending">
       </form>
   
       <?php
       session_start();
       if (isset($_POST['order'])){
       	$_SESSION['selection'] = $_POST['selection'];
       	$_SESSION['order'] = $_POST['order'];}
   
       echo $_SESSION['order'] . "\n";
       echo $_SESSION['selection'];
       echo '</div><!--end refine-->';
       ?>
   
       $cats = array(2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ,7, 8, 9, 10);
       foreach ($cats as $c){
       $posts = query_posts( $query_string . '&orderby=' . $_SESSION['selection'] . '&order=' . $_SESSION['order'] . '&cat=' . $c );
   
       if( $posts ) :
       	while (have_posts()) :
       		the_post();
       ?>
   
       [html content]
       ```
   
 * Thanks for looking,
    Sam
 *  Thread Starter [Galaxy_High](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galaxy_high/)
 * (@galaxy_high)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-and-forms/#post-6381571)
 * Fixed. I needed to change **Descending** and **Ascending** to **desc** and **
   asc**, respectively, to coincide with **&order=** in my query.
 * Thanks for looking.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

The topic ‘PHP and forms’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [cache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cache/)
 * [forms](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/forms/)
 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)
 * [variables](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/variables/)

 * 2 replies
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [Galaxy_High](https://wordpress.org/support/users/galaxy_high/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-and-forms/#post-6381571)
 * Status: resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics