note 87337 added to language.variables.variable

From: Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:44:57 +0000
Subject: note 87337 added to language.variables.variable
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I have a HTML form that has a dynamic number of fields (for entry of collected data it adds a new field each time) and would like to use the variable variable on _POST. This way, I could increment the field name value with a loop limit when say 100 fields are reached (the max for the form.) Below is the solution I came up with to work around it: <?php $MaxRows=100; $NumbersOfTime=0; extract ($_POST,EXTR_PREFIX_ALL,'pos'); for ($i = 1; $i <= $MaxRows; $i = $i + 1) { $tmp = "pos_TimeRecorded{$i}"; if (isset($$tmp)) { $TimeRecorded[$i]=$$tmp; } else { $NumbersOfTime=$i-1; break; } } ?> ---- Server IP: 209.41.74.194 Probable Submitter: 70.208.92.222 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/87337 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87337/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87337/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87337/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87337/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87337/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87337/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/87337 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/87337 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php

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