html form elements ... possible to access in php array?

redgorilla

Hi,

I have a form where the action accesses my php script, but I don't know how to access the elements that were submitted via an array. Please help.

Thank you!

cgraz

Could you post your code? If you're using a select field set to multiple for example (where the user can select more than one option by holding down the ctrl key), you can just add [] after the name and call each of the values as an array.

<option value="Hello">Hello</option>
<option value="Goodbye">Goodbye</option>
<option value="more_text">More Text</option>

</select>

Then in your php file that processes the form, you could access those values using

$slct['0']
$slct['1']
$slct['2']

Is that what you were looking for?

Cgraz

redgorilla

Hi,

Thanks for replying. What I'm after is a generic way to access data submitted by a form through an array (something like an elements array?). For example, in JavaScript I can access data in the above mentioned following way (is there some way possible to do something similar in PHP?):

The JS part:

function showElements(theForm)
{
str = "Form Elements of form " + theForm.name + ": \n "

for (i = 0; i < theForm.length; i++)
{

str += theForm.elements.name + "\n"
}

alert(str)
}

The HTML part:

<FORM NAME="myForm">
Form name:<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="text1" VALUE="Beluga">
<P>
<INPUT NAME="button2" TYPE="button" VALUE="Show Form Elements" onClick="showElements(this.form)">
</FORM>

cgraz

foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {
   $body += "<b>" + $key + ":</b> " + $value + "\r";
}

This would create a variable $body that would output something like

field1: value1
field2: value2
field3: value3

You should be able to change that around to do what you want.
Hope this helps.

Cgraz

redgorilla

Hi,

My last reply didn't seem to go through, I just wanted to say that your suggestion is what I was looking for; except, that I had to replace the +'s with .'s. Why is that? Perhaps a different version?

Thanks again!