Have you tried naming your form elements such as skill[], sky[] and slu[] ?
(You could also use skill[1], skill[2], skill[3] etc... within your form.)
This would pass the form values as arrays which you can then iterate through
in your script.
$skills = $_POST['skill'];
$skys = $_POST['sky'];
$slus = $_POST['slu'];
foreach($skills as $idx => $skill)
{
if ($skys[$idx])
{
// Validate this sky element
}
if ($slus[$idx])
{
// Validate this slu element
}
}
You can just as easily store the arrays in your $_SESSION if the processing
is to be done later.
Note: Some form element types only pass a value if ticked/checked/selected.
This will present problems if naming your form elements with [], instead use
[x], [y] etc to keep all relevant form elements together in the same array
indexes. (Am I making sense?, No?, time for bed then...)
HTH
Graham
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Felenstein [mailto:stuart4m@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 16 October 2004 22:48
> To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Question: Putting seperate form elements into an array
>
>
> Right now this seems something like solving a rubic's
> cube. While I process, I hope it's alright that i'm
> asking here. I think my quantity of posts have been
> high :)
>
> I have these form elements:(these are the names of the
> elements)
>
> skill1 sky1 slu1
> skill2 sky2 slu2
> skill3 sky3 slu3
> ..... ... ....
>
> They are being passed as sessions variables:
>
> $_SESSION['f411a'] = $_POST['skill1'];
> $_SESSION['f411b'] = $_POST['sky1'];
> $_SESSION['f411c'] = $_POST['slu1'];
> $_SESSION['f412a'] = $_POST['skill2'];
> $_SESSION['f412b'] = $_POST['sky2'];
> $_SESSION['f412c'] = $_POST['slu2'];
> $_SESSION['f413a'] = $_POST['skill3'];
> $_SESSION['f413b'] = $_POST['sky3'];
> $_SESSION['f413c'] = $_POST['slu3'];
>
> Perhaps instead of listing them out I should find a
> way here to get them into an array.
> Also, none of these are required fields, but if the
> user put something in for Skill1 , then they should
> input for sky1 and slu1.
>
> Now I need to sort them out for processing into the
> database. I don't think it's wise to check each one.
> When they go into the database, each "skill, sky ,
> slu"
> is a new record.
>
> +---------+----------+---------+--------+
> | Record | Skill | Years | Used |
> +---------+----------+---------+--------+
> | 1001 | Skill1 | sky1 | slu1 |
> +---------------------------------------+
> | 1002 | Skill2 | sky2 | slu2 |
> +---------------------------------------+
>
> Someone partially wrote something out for me. But I
> can't quite understand it.
>
> for($i=0; $i<5; $i++){
> echo ('<br>-'.@$HTTP_SESSION_VARS['f41'.($i+1).'a']);
> if (!empty($HTTP_SESSION_VARS['f41'.($i+1).'a'])){
> $_SESSION('skil', $_SESSION['f41'.($i+1).'a']);
> $_SESSION('yrs', $_SESSION['f41'.($i+1).'b']);
> $_SESSION('used', $_SESSION['f41'.($i+1).'c']);
>
>
> I see the increment , though I'm not sure why there is
> an echo at the start. f41 comes from nowhere and it
> looks like each field has 2 variables.
>
> Anyway I am seriously trying the figure this out,
> apologies for sending it to the list.
>
> Thank you,
> Stuart
>
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