note 49531 added to language.variables.variable

Hello, everyone. I'm new to PHP so you'll have to forgive any inefficiency or otherwise 'bad' coding practices. I have a unique situation of trying to access posted form variables with 'dynamic' variable names. Heres the situation: On one page, using a series of loops & a database, PHP creates a standard <form> on a page. For each new person in the database, it creates a new text box that is for the person's age. I wrote the PHP so that when it produces the code for the name of the form variable, the name of the varialbe is {PERSONSNAME}_age. So, when it creates the text box for Georges name the name of the text box is George_age, the one for Zelda is Zelda_age and etc. When I post these to a form handling PHP script, when I use the statement "echo $P_Zelda_age" it outputs the right value, however I am having trouble figuring out how to access these variables for code that doesn't already know what names are coming in (for example, I don't have a way to access $P_sam_age, if this person were to be added to the database). Any ideas? is there any way to perhaps put all form input into an array that I can access? Thanks, TheMayorByNight@gmail.com ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+49531 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49531&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49531&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49531&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49531&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49531&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+49531&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php