posting variables

[daleks]

Ive written this in php but it wont post the $can[] array to another html web page.

<form name="Addcan" action="adddb.php" method="post">

<?php
for($i = 0; $i < $numcan ; $i++){
printf("Candidate".$i.": <input type='text' name='".$can[$i]."'><BR>");
}
?>

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</form>

I think it is due to statement being a php statement and not a HTML statement

[stolzyboy]

<? 
for($i = 0; $i < $numcan ; $i++){ 
?>
Candidate<? echo $i; ?><input type="text" name="<? echo $can[$i]; ?>" value="<? echo $can[$i]; ?>"><BR>
<?
} 
?>

[abnfire]

i dont understand why echoing 5 times when you can do it one time like this:

very easy to read.
<?
for($i = 0; $i < $numcan ; $i++){

echo 'Candidate '.$i.' <input type="text" name="'. $can[$i] .'" value="'. $can[$i].'"><BR>';

}
?>

[stolzyboy]

but very uneasy to do html formatting since you will have to worry about escaping quotes and such, it you have a lot of html formatting to mix with php, it is much easier to hop in and out of php, and you will be able to keep up with your quoting with no problems, many people on this forum have quoting, ticking, escaping problems, and hopping in and out will solve that problem, and it has NO difference on the server, since php has to parse the whole file anyway regardless if there is php in it or not