Arrays / Form data

[btaylor]

Hi,

What I am trying to do is pass items from multiple drop down boxes into an array.

I have a shopping cart that I am working on, items couple possibly have multiple options, ie: color, size etc, so I am trying to get the multiple options passed to the cart and then diplayed.

I am thinking arrays maybe the best solution, I can't find anything that describes this. I see passing single form data. The problem is I don't know a head of time what the options would be, it would depend on the client?

any suggestions and some coding help.

thanks,

Brett

[Anon]

Make your input boxes with the name: arrayname[theopton]

Then look at something like this..
while(list($key,$var) = each($arrayname))
{
your code
}

Hope that points you in the right direction.

[btaylor]

Hessian,

Thanks for replying.

I tried doing this in the code

<select name="OptionName[$OptionName]"> so when it queries I may get something like this:

<select name="OptionName[Color]">
<contents>
</select>

<select name="OptionName[Size]">
<contents>
</select>

On the receiveing page I did this:

<?php while (list($key, $val) = each ($OptionName)) {
echo("OptionName['$key $val']"); }?>

I get this error message:

Warning: Variable passed to each() is not an array or object in /home/software/ezysite-www/demo3/display-cart.php on line 179