Detecting all posted variables

tunage

Hi, ive got an order form wheere the user is presented with a list of publications, each of which has a text box to enter the amount required, which is linked to the publication ID. The way i have it set up, is that all text box's are posted to the processing script.

At present the only way i can think of processing the amount is to use a for loop which cycles through the number of publications in the database and detects if the corresponding publication has an amount associated with it.

This is how I have my form set up-


$myqty= $row["pubID"] . "qty";
		?>
			<td align=left valign=middle width='20%'>&nbsp;<?echo stripslashes($row["name"])?></td>
			<td align=left valign=middle width='20%'><?echo stripslashes($row['category'])?></td>
			<td align=left valign=middle width='15%'><?echo $row['price']?></td>
			<td align=left valign=middle><input type=text size=2 maxlength=4 name='$myqty' value=''></td>
		</tr>
		<?

Is there a more logical way of doing this, or should i just use the for loop option?

Thanks in advance

sarahk

sounds good. Not sure about the line with

$myqty= $row["pubID"] . "qty";

but the rest seems good. Unless you used a rigid naming convention you couldn't just dump all the variables, and given that those not selected or with the 0's removed you'd get a funny results form. I think you are on the right track.

tunage

Yeah, the only reason im using that is to give each input field a unique name: ie 1qty, 6qty, 2qty - the number identifying the pub id - i could just use the id on its own, but the receiving script is receiving id's for other aspects like client id - so i need to use something to diferentiate them.