note 49531 deleted from language.variables.variable by nlopess

From: Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 11:18:17 +0000
Subject: note 49531 deleted from language.variables.variable by nlopess
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Note Submitter: themayorbynight AT gmail.com ---- 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

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