Re: online bidding

Hi! My opinion is that you should skip the array step and jump to database implementation - it's a slightly different approach and you'd have to change most of the array code... Bogdan regnivon@netscape.net wrote:

the following code represents an ineloquent way of capturing data from multiple form fields. currently, i am capturing the data from 4 fields(e.g. ."Choice 1: ".$line1."\n") i could have up to 222 inputs when this is completed. what might be a better way of doing this instead of hardcoding 222 different variables? using and array? i want to be able to send this information as part of the $bid_information variable. i will eventually write this info. to a database, but for now, baby steps. <? $name=trim($name); $employee_id=trim($employee_id); $month=($month); $aircraft=($aircraft); $position=($position); $bid_position=trim($bid_position); $revision=trim($revision); $line1=trim($line1); $line2=trim($line2); $line3=trim($line3); $line4=trim($line4); $contact= "me"; // person to contact for assistance $toaddress = "me@foo.com"; // the default value $fromaddress = "From: webmaster@foo.com"; $subject = "Online Bidding"; $bid_information = "Name: ".$name."\n" // all the information from the line_bid_sheet form.

                    ."Employee ID: ".$employee_id."\n"
                    ."Month: ".$month."\n"
                    ."Aircraft: ".$aircraft."\n"
                    ."Position: ".$position."\n"
                    ."Bid Position: ".$bid_position."\n"
                    ."Revision: ".$revision."\n\n"
                    ."Choice 1: ".$line1."\n"
                    ."Choice 2: ".$line2."\n"
                    ."Choice 3: ".$line3."\n"
                    ."Choice 4: ".$line4."\n";

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