$HTTP_POST_VARS and while loop...help.

phpRenegade

well it's hard to explain...

the input file looks like this and it's not always going to be like this

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here's the code
since the input file is not constantly the same.
i want to split all the variables out of $HTTP_POST_VARS 2 out of a time.

ideas?

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Weedpacket

Well, this line won't work:

while(list($value, $variable) = $HTTP_POST_VARS) {

You mean each($HTTP_POST_VARS).

Now I'm not too sure what you mean by "split the variables out of HTTP_POST_VARS two at a time" - and into what? An array? Two arrays? An array of two-element arrays?

Two arrays is easy: rename the form fields to value[1], value[2], ... etc, and then $HTTP_POST_VARS['value'] will automatically be an array of the value fields' contents.

phpRenegade

2 first two values like

$value, $variable

come from the $HTTP_POST_VARS array

and have it loop to get the next two until there are no more pairs of variables in the array.

Mega

"the input file looks like this"

what is an 'input file'?

"since the input file is not constantly the same.
i want to split all the variables out of $HTTP_POST_VARS 2 out of a time."

I don't understand that bit either.

Please explain what you mean so that an idiot like me can understand.

🙂

phpRenegade

the "input" file is the file i am opening to read from

the data in the file will be something like this

modules1 News
blocks1 Menu
addins1 Scroll

there could be more or less lines.
what i want to do is write from the $HTTP_POST_VARS array
since i will never know exactly how many variables are in the array i would like to be able to read out from the array two variables at a time since i do know that the variables in the array are paired and those pairs go together. i have never been able to work with arrays so i do not know what i need to do.

phpRenegade

i finally have it figured out...

thank you for your help and patience