Re: Iterating varibales

Actually, if you make the names in the form resemble array variables, this can be greatly simplified. Something similar to the following might be what you are looking for: <input type="text" name="item[0]"> <input type="text" name="item[1]"> when the form is passed to the next script, there will be a single variable called $item - and it will be an array with two values. This is one of the neater features of PHP... I would recommend generating the input fields using something like the following: for ($loop=0; $loop < $num_needed; $loop++) { echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"item[$loop]\"><br>"; } in the result script you can then traverse the passed array $item with a foreach loop (if you are using PHP4). Something like the following could possibly work. foreach($item as $key=>$value) { echo "Index #$key = $value<br>"; } At Thursday, 5 July 2001, you wrote: >I have a site which uses two pages. The first page generates an HTML >form with multiple rows which is then POSTed to the second page. Sometimes >on the first page I have to create multiple rows of INPUT fields. To allow >a dynamic number of INPUT fields (say someone wants to add seven new numbers >to there online address book), set up a while look and echo "<INPUT >TYPE=text NAME=input_field".$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?