On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 08:07:26PM -0500, Shawn McKenzie wrote:
> Terry J Daichendt wrote:
> > I'm trying to create a form with a loop. I need to append a value to a
> > field name each time through the loop. For Instance:
> >
> > while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
> > $x=1;
> > echo "<tr>"; echo "<td><input type='text' id='qty'
> > name='quantity_' size='2' value='$row[qty]' /></td>";
> > echo "</tr>";
> > $x++;
> > }
> >
> > the name value quantity needs the value of x appended to it. quantity_1,
> > quantity_2 etc. What is the correct syntax to achieve this, especially
> > the parsing to get it to work. I suspect the dot operator to append it
> > but I can't get the parsing down.
> >
> > Terry Daichendt
>
> echo '<td><input type="text" id="qty" name="quantity_' . $x . '"
> size="2" value="' . $row['qty']. '" /></td>';
>
> However, I would use an array:
>
> echo '<td><input type="text" id="qty" name="quantity[' . $x . ']"
> size="2" value="' . $row['qty']. '" /></td>';
>
> Depending upon your use, you can even leave out the index and let it
> increment.
>
> echo '<td><input type="text" id="qty" name="quantity[]" size="2"
> value="' . $row['qty']. '" /></td>';
Ids must be unique within a document.
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