Re: Iterating varibales
| From: | Philip Hallstrom | Date: | Thu, 05 Jul 2001 21:36:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Iterating varibales | ||
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Take a look at $HTTP_POST_VARS and $HTTP_GET_VARS. They will make this a
lot easier.
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Brian Ricks wrote:
> I have a site which uses two pages. The first page generates an HTML
> form with multiple rows which is then POSTed to the second page. Sometimes
> on the first page I have to create multiple rows of INPUT fields. To allow
> a dynamic number of INPUT fields (say someone wants to add seven new numbers
> to there online address book), set up a while look and echo "<INPUT
> TYPE=text NAME=input_field".$inc.">"; where $inc is the incremented variable
> in a loop. The result is something like this:
>
> <INPUT TYPE=text NAME=input_field0>
> <INPUT TYPE=text NAME=input_field1>
> <INPUT TYPE=text NAME=input_field2>
>
> The difficulty comes when I try to access these variables on the second
> page. Currently I am using a script like this:
>
> $String = 'input_field'.$inc;
> echo($$String);
>
> Sometimes my code requires multiple variables and conditions. When this
> happens, using the above code is confusing a lengthy. Is there a way to
> simplify this code at all?
>
>
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