note 64048 added to control-structures.while

This thing is cool. I use 'while' expressions all the time, to create a dropdown box from a table for instance. Code: <? $username="root"; $password=""; $database="adatabase"; mysql_connect(localhost,$username,$password); @mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Can't retrieve database."); $query="SELECT * FROM atable"; $result=mysql_query($query); $num=mysql_numrows($result); mysql_close(); $i=0; echo "<select name=test>"; echo "<option></option>"; //this is for a blank default value while ($i < $num) { $test=mysql_result($result,$i,"naam"); echo "<option>$naam</option>"; $i++; } echo "</select>"; ?> What it can't do however, is when you create fieldnames using <? echo "<input type=text name=field$i>" ?> (this will generate fields named field1, field2, field3 etc obviously) you can't read the related post info using $field=$_POST['field$i']; and add $field's non existing output in a query. The query is inside the loop ofcourse. I'm trying to work this out to add multiple instances of a component with different serial numbers to a database. This is no request. ---- Server IP: 194.109.193.119 Probable Submitter: 80.65.96.52 (proxied: 80.65.121.212) ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.3 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER, HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.while.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/note/edit/64048 Del: integrated -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64048/integrated Del: useless -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64048/useless Del: bad code -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64048/bad+code Del: spam -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64048/spam Del: non-english -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64048/non-english Del: in docs -- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64048/in+docs Del: other reasons-- http://master.php.net/note/delete/64048 Reject -- http://master.php.net/note/reject/64048 Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php