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How to dynamically create and populate text fields in jQuery?

Is this a problem (or a design pattern?) That I think is pretty common, so I hope this post can help others with a similar problem ....

I have a rare situation where a complex form should dynamically allow users to edit data that depends on other options that the user makes. I am using Ajax, jQuery with PHP and postgres as a database.

I figured out how to return data for a single record based on two values ​​selected by the user using the jQuery Ajax technique (for this, Ajax is as weak as php); usually the return value will be one entry that my HTML form can process. But sometimes the return value will be two or three records. In this case, I need to dynamically add input fields and populate them with the returned data.

Here is the code in my form; the Fetch button accepts a Selected Marker value and a Selected LabID value to search for a dependent record that contains Allele_1, Allele_2 and Run date:

<fieldset>
      <LEGEND><b>Edit Genotype</b></LEGEND>
      <p>
    <boldlabel>Selected Marker</boldlabel><input name=sel_marker length=15 DISABLED>
    <boldlabel>Selected LabID</boldlabel><input name=sel_labid length=10 DISABLED><br>
    <boldlabel>Allele_1</boldlabel><input id=allele1 name=allele_1 size=5 >
    <boldlabel>Allele_2</boldlabel><input id=allele2 name=allele_2 size=5 >
    <boldlabel>Run date</boldlabel><input id=run_date name=run_date size=10 >
    <br>
      </p>              
    <input type="button" name="fetch" id="fetchbutton" value="Fetch" sclass="btn">
    <input type="button" name="save"  value="Save" onclick="savegenotype()" class="btn">
    <br>
    </fieldset>

This is the javascript code associated with the Fetch button:

  function fetchgenotype() {
    // here where we use an Ajax function to fetch the allele values without reloading the page.
    // Get the index number of the genotype record to retrieve; retrieve it; populate the alleles.

    var mndx = document.EditGenotype.marker.options[document.EditGenotype.marker.selectedIndex].value;
    var sndx = document.EditGenotype.labid.options[document.EditGenotype.labid.selectedIndex].value;

    $.post("fetchAlleles.php", {mndx: mndx, sndx: sndx},
    function(result) {        
      i=0;
      result.each(
        a1='allele1_'||i.toString();
        a2='allele2_'||i.toString();
        r='rundate_'||i.toString();

        $("#run_date").after(a1);
        $("#run_date").after(a2);
        $("#run_date").after(r);
      )
    }, "json");

    return false;
  }

Here is a separate PHP script that is part of Ajax that looks for related data:

   // query the database.
    $dbconnect = pg_pconnect("host=".$hostname." user=".$dbuser." dbname=".$dbname);    
    if (!$dbconnect)    {
        showerror(0,"Failed to connect to database",'fetchAlleles',16,"username=".$dbuser.", dbname=".$dbname);
        exit;
    }
    $sql = "SELECT allele1, allele2, run_date FROM geno.genotypes WHERE markers_id=".$mndx." AND gsamples_id=".$sndx;

    $fetchresult = pg_exec($dbconnect, $sql);
    if ($fetchresult) {
        $arr = pg_fetch_array($fetchresult, 0, PGSQL_NUM);
        // for debugging
        //print_r($arr);
    } else {
        echo "(25) Failed to retrieve results.<BR>SQL: ".$sql."</br>";
    }

    // It appears necessary to return the array as json encapsulated.
    echo json_encode($arr);
?>
}

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JSON-Response

//DB return only ONE record
    {
      "items": [
            { 
                "allele1" : "the-value",
                "allele2" : "the-value",
                "run_date" : "the-date"
            }
        ],
      "totalItems : 1
    }

//DB returns more than one records
{
  "items": [
        { 
            "allele1" : "the-value_1",
            "allele2" : "the-value_1",
            "run_date" : "the-date_1"
        },
        { 
            "allele1" : "the-value_2",
            "allele2" : "the-value_2",
            "run_date" : "the-date_2"
        },
        ...
        { 
            "allele1" : "the-value_n",
            "allele2" : "the-value_n",
            "run_date" : "the-date_n"
        }
    ],
  "totalItems : n
}

, INPUT . , ,

if(response.totalItems === 1 ) {
    // handle single record
}else if (response.totalItems > 1) {
    // handle multiple records
}

, jQuery.each() jQuery.map()

if (response.totalItems > 0) {
    //iterate through all items in JSON-response
    $.each(response.items, function(index, object) {
        // create FIELDSET element
        var $fieldset = $('<fieldset>', {'html' : '<legend>#'+(index+1)+'</legend>'});

        $.map(object, function(value ,key) {
           //create LABEL element and appendInto FIELDSET
           $fieldset.append($('<label>', {'text' : key, 'for' : key}));
           //create INPUT element and appendInto FIELDSET
           $fieldset.append($('<input>', {'id': key, 'name': key, 'value' : value}));
           //create LineBreak
          $fieldset.append('<br />');
        });
        // Append whole FIELDSET with LABEL, INPUT and BR to body (or whatever your placeholder is)
        $('body').append($fieldset);
   });
}
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