Simplifying my Mailform

[cris123]

i'm new with php.

could someone please tell me how i can create a loop to simplify the next code:

$message = $number1;
$message .= " ";
$message .= $item1;
$message .= " ";
$message .= $quantity1;
$message .= " ";
$message .= $priceeach1;
$message .= " ";
$message .= $totalcost1;
$message .= "\n";
$message .= $number2;
$message .= " ";
$message .= $item2;
$message .= " ";
$message .= $quantity2;
$message .= " ";
$message .= $priceeach2;
$message .= " ";
$message .= $totalcost2;
$message .= "\n";
$message .= $number3;
$message .= " ";
$message .= $item3;
$message .= " ";
$message .= $quantity3;
$message .= " ";
$message .= $priceeach3;
$message .= " ";
$message .= $totalcost3;
$message .= "\n";
$message .= $number4;
$message .= " ";
$message .= $item4;
$message .= " ";
$message .= $quantity4;
$message .= " ";
$message .= $priceeach4;
$message .= " ";
$message .= $totalcost4;

as you can see they are repeating fieldnames from a tabel in a form. i wanted to put a variable at the end of each fieldname and put it in a loop. But i don't know how.

[cgraz]

There are plenty of ways to do this. This may not be the best, but it works. I commented it so you could hopefully figure out how it all works. This code is assuming the method on your form is POST.

$i = "1"; // set initial value of $i

foreach($_POST as $value) { // take each element of the array $_POST and put it's value into variable $value

   if($i == "1") { // if it's the first element
      $message = $value; // then there's no need to concatenate the $message variable
   } else { // not first element
      $message .= $value; // need to concatenate to $message variable
   }

   if (strlen($i / 5) == "1") { // if the string length of $i divided by five equals 1 (means it's divisible by 5)
      $message .= "\n"; // use the newline character
   } else { // not divisible by 5
      $message .= " "; // just add a space
   }
   $i++; // increment $i
}

Hope this helps!

Cgraz