[Swanny86uk]

Hey,

I'm having a little trouble thinking about how I return values from a form where the number of fields is not always going to be the same.

The first step of my form allows the user to select a number between 1 and 50, once they have done this the page reloads with the number of fields they selected and done this via this code;

PHP Code:

for ($i = 1; $i <= $fields; $i++) {
    echo "<label>Variable $i</label>&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type='text name='$i'><br /><br />";
} 


The problem I have with this is that on the next page where I want to use the values from these form fields I can't think of how to capture them as I don't know how many will be coming through. I could do an absolutely massive IF statement but that seems a bit stupid.

Does anyone know how I could do this?

[tomdkat]

In your script, when you send back the page with the list of form fields, also send back a hidden form field that contains the number of fields that were generated. Then, when the user submits the form with the generated form fields on it, the number of generated fields is sent back also.

The hidden form field would look like this:

<input type="hidden" value="{number of generated fields}" name="generatedFieldCount" />

Then, when the form is sent back (with the generated fields filled in), you can get the number of generated fields by getting the value of the "generatedFieldCount" form field and use that to control a for loop to process the fields.

Peace...

[Swanny86uk]

Thanks again,

I seem to be struggling a bit on the loop section of this however. My code for the loop is below - the $fields variable is the number of form fields submitted.

PHP Code:

$fields = $_POST['fields'];

for($i = 1; $i <= $fields; $i++) {
        $i = $_POST[$i];
        echo $i;
} 


Each form field name is a number from 1-50 which is why I'm using the $_POST[$i] but I keep getting an offset error :S

[tomdkat]

Try using a variable OTHER than $i to both hold the data from the form AND act as the control of the for() loop. Maybe this:

$fields = $_POST['fields'];

for($i = 1; $i <= $fields; $i++) {
        $fieldValue = $_POST[$i];
        echo $fieldValue;
}

Peace...

[Swanny86uk]

Excellent that works - I had also forgot to add a final ' on my form on the previous page which was why the values weren't coming through, all solved now though,

Thanks!

[tomdkat]

Great!

Peace...