Missing an array

[Anon]

Hi there,

I am creating an news section on a site, I want it to grab the top 10 new items via a DB. I am running into problems where a form I have created for changing / selecting the top 10 order is not wroking correctly... I know that there is some kind of a array I haven't created to get all the data from the form to the !submit function... Where should I put this array?? - what should be in it??

Thanks in advance 🙂

<?
if (@$submit){
global $list;
while (@$top10) {
if ($top10 =='0') {
echo 'no fields to process....';
} else {

echo $top10 . " => " . $list . "<br>";
$top10 = $top10 -1;
}
}} else { ?>
<FORM action="<? $PHP_SELF ?>" method=post>
<?
$sql = "SELECT * FROM news where NewsSectionID = 6";
$res = mysql_query($sql);
$n = mysql_numrows($res);
while ($news = mysql_fetch_array($res)) {
?>
<input type="hidden" name="top10" value =<? echo $n ?>>
<?
$list = "id" . $n . "";
print $list. "=>" . $news["newsID"] . ""; ?>
<input type="hidden" name="list" value = "<? echo $news["newsID"] ?>">
<? echo stripslashes($news["headline"]);
$n = $n -1;?><br>
<? }?>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</form><? } ?>

[fandelem]

<input type="hidden" name="top10" value =<? echo $n ?>>

should be:

<input type="hidden" name="top10[]" value =<? echo $n ?>>

this way, when you say:

if ($submit) {

$count = count($top10); // count elements

for ( $i = 0; $i < $count; $i++ ) {
// cycle through each element doing whatever..
}

..........or........

if you want just the first ten..

for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++ ) {
// echo whatever is stored in $top10
}

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basically, the idea here is use the [] in the html portion to indicate an array. i hope this is what you are asking.

kyle

[Anon]

yes this is it - thank you very much, and what a speedy result - thanks

Grunta 🙂