input=text and values in array

[Anon]

Hi people! I have the following situation:
label[1]=ONE;
label[2]=TWO;
label[n]=NNN; <- up to here everything's ok

I've got values in an mysql array
field[1]=John
field[2]=Peter

I want to let people change values, doing this:
for($x = 1; $x <= 2; $x++){
echo $label[$x] .
"<input type=text name=" . anyname[$x] .
"value='" . $field[$x] . "'>";

and then if "submit", I want to do something like this:
for($x=1; $x <= 2; $x++){
//no the real code here, just the intention
update field[$x] with value in $anyname[$x]
}

I hope u understand my cromagnon explanation!

Thanx a lot!

[Anon]

So you have 2 arrays one is holding the text of the numbered item in the array, and the other is holding a name that you want to be able to let the user change?

What you want to do can be done like this:

Your first loop only has one problem you should change:

name=" . $anyname[$x] . " value='"

to:

name=anyname[$x] value='"

So that when the form is submited you have a variable called $anyname that holds all of the fields.

In your second loop, you should use the count() of the $field array to determine the size of the loop (you should do this in the 1st one also). Then check if the field exists in $anyname and then make changes as appropriate:

for ($x = 1; $x = count($field); $x++) {
if (isset($anyname[$x])) {
if ($field[$x] != $anyname[$x]) {
$field[$x] = $anyname[$x];
}
}
else {
// user deleted the row store which row was deleted
$deletes[] = $x;
}
}

for (reset $deletes; $key = key($deletes); next($deletes)) {
// remove the $key row from $fields
}