Dynamically built form/overcomming scope

[driftwood]

I'm dynamically constructing a form based on a query's result...the purpose of the form will be to either add or remove records from a table in a mysql database.

I'm quite stumped, though, on how to pass the variables that result from the form's submission either to another function on the same page, or to another page; as there isn't anyway of determining which or how many variables will be created at submission before the form is built!

Is there a way to pull this off, or am I, as I suspect, up the proverbial creek? Below is a bit of how I'm building the form:

$getNames = mysql_query("SELECT Group_Name from toolbox_groups ORDER BY Group_Name ASC");
while ($names = mysql_fetch_row($getNames)){
echo "<table><tr><td colspan=2>$names[0]</td></tr>";
$getTools = mysql_query("SELECT Item_ID, Item_Name, Item_Desc from toolbox_items WHERE Item_Group_Name = '$names[0]' ORDER BY Item_Name ASC");
while ($tools = mysql_fetch_row($getTools)){
echo "<tr><td><input type=checkbox name=$tools[1] value=$tools[0]>$tools[1]</td><td>$tools[2]</td></tr>";
}
echo "</table>";

[Anon]

I would eliminate the recursive query using a join and GROUP BY, then use variable variables to create the names of each form field. Count the number of fields and pass this value to your receiving script and loop through the variable variables to get each key value pair.