Re: array $_POST problem

On Tuesday 16 March 2004 12:16, thou spake: > You're the Joey Kelly who runs the LUG in NoLA, yes? Yes, that's me. Have you been to one of our meetings lately? We redid our website recently: http://www.nolug.org Thanks for saying "hi" :-) <snip> > > Upon post, you need to get materials as such: > > $materials = &$_POST['materials']; That looks interesting (using the "&", etc.) I'll have to look into that. What the problem ended up being was bad syntax. I was using $materials["quantity"][1] = $_POST[$materials]["quantity"][1]; instead of $materials["quantity"][1] = $_POST["materials"]["quantity"][1]; ...using a variable instead of a string to reference the array. <snip> > Personally, I'd rename your form elements to: > > $materials[$item][quantity] > $materials[$item][price] > $materials[$item][description] > > Chris Excellent idea. In truth, I just picked up this project again after 1.5 years, so I expect to find other newbie mistakes in it. FYI, the project (WebInvoicer) is listed on my "projects" page, and I expect to release a new version of it (I'm refactoring it completely, and it will have the MySQL backend, etc.) in a few weeks. I'll probably post it on freshmeat, as well. Thanks to all who offered their suggestions :-) -- Joey Kelly < Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant > http://joeykelly.net "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL