Re: Mixing Arrays

On Tuesday 15 April 2003 18:37, Webmaster wrote: > Anybody out there that can help me with this one? > > Have the following form posting arrays to a text file : > > <form method="post" action="prod.php"> > <input type="text" name="prodid[ ]" size="7"> > <input type="text" name="proddes[ ]" size="35"> > <input type="text" name="prodid[ ]" size="7"> > <input type="text" name="proddes[ ]" size="35"> > <input type="text" name="prodid[ ]" size="7"> > <input type="text" name="proddes[ ]" size="35"> ... > and so on > <input type="submit" value="Submit"> > > prodid is the Product ID and > proddes is the Product Description > > On prod.php I have : > > $data1 = join("%", $prodid); > $data2 = join("%", $proddes); > $main_data = "$data1" . "$data2"; > > > $fh = fopen("products.txt", "w"); > if (!$fh) { > die("<br>Failed to open file"); > } > fwrite($fh, "$main_data"); > fclose($fh); > > this generates the output in the textfile as: > > 1%2%3%Product One Description%Product Two Description%Product Three > Description > > Question is - how do I get the script to write to the text file so that I > have a result that looks like this: > > 1%Product One Description%2%Product Two Description%3%Product Three > Description The way you have named your variables you would probably have to use a for-loop. If I was doing it I would have named them differently, thus: <form method="post" action="prod.php"> <input type="text" name="prod[1][id]" size="7"> <input type="text" name="prod[1][des]" size="35"> <input type="text" name="prod[2][id]" size="7"> <input type="text" name="prod[2][des]" size="35"> ... ... <input type="submit" value="Submit"> Then: foreach ($_POST['prod'] as $value) { $main_data = $value['id'] . $value['des']; } I'll leave you to fill in the blanks. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. */