Passing multidimensional array between forms

sfutch

first I enter key to view then pull from mySQL table the data...and display in table attached. I want to allow the user to update the data, but having problem figuring out how to determine what has changed in the array. How do I pass the data into a multidimen. array and then to another form.

this is the table data code:
print("<td align=\"center\" width=\"5%\" bgcolor=\"$color\"><center>");
print("<input style=\"background-color:#C0C0C0\" type=\"text\" name=\"recordid[]\" size=\"10\" value=\"$row[0]\"/ readonly></td>");
print("<td align=\"center\" width=\"5%\" bgcolor=\"$color\"><center>");
print("<input type=\"text\" name=\"company[]\" size=\"04\" value=\"$row[1]\"/></center></td>");
print("<td align=\"center\" width=\"5%\" bgcolor=\"$color\"><center>");
print("<input type=\"text\" name=\"account[]\" size=\"20\" value=\"$row[2]\"/></center></td>");
print("<td width=\"5%\" bgcolor=\"$color\"><center>");
print("<input type=\"text\" name=\"center[]\" size=\"04\" value=\"$row[3]\"/></center></td>");
print("<td width=\"5%\" bgcolor=\"$color\"><left>");
print("<input type=\"text\" name=\"intorder[]\" size=\"20\" value=\"$row[4]\"/></left></td>");
print("<td width=\"5%\" bgcolor=\"$color\"><left>");
print("<input type=\"text\" name=\"alloc[]\" size=\"20\" value=\"$row[5]\"/></left></td>");
print("<td width=\"5%\" bgcolor=\"$color\"><left>");
print("<input type=\"text\" name=\"percent[]\" size=\"4\" value=\"$row[6]\"/></left></td>");
print("<td width=\"5%\" bgcolor=\"$color\"><left>");
print("<input type=\"text\" name=\"pon[]\" size=\"5\" value=\"$row[9]\"/></left></td>");

i want user to be able to make changes in the input box that are not readonly and click update button and rewrite the data to mySQL.

i've built this array in the form where i create the table, but i can't get the data to pass to another form.
$myArray = array("recordids" => array("recordid" => $row[0]),
"companys" => array("company" => $row[1]),
"accounts" => array("account" => $row[2]),
"centers" => array("center" => $row[3]),
"intorders" => array("intorder" => $row[4]),
"allocs" => array("alloc" => $row[5]),
"percents" => array("percent" => $row[6]
);

echo $myArray["companys"]["company"];

this echo will display all 3 companys from the .jpg [032,033,046] but when i try to display the array when click update button in another form i don't have any data...

Anybody got code currently doing something like this?

thanks,
futch

buck2bcr

I'll have to check through some of my old stuff. But, right off the top of my head I think you need to put the variable inside these -> {}

so the variable would look like this

{$myArray["companys"]["company"]};

That way php knows that it all is supposed to be one variable.

I'll look back through some of my stuff.

HTH

Buck

minorgod

I think you're making things way harder than you need to. First of all, if you name any form input field with a name such as "myinput[]", the brackets will force PHP to add the form element to an array when submitted. So if you had 10 form elements (no matter what kind they are) all named "myinput[]", then the receiving PHP page will have an array (assuming you submitted via GET) called $GET['myinput'] with 10 elements. Likewise, if you submitted the form via POST method, then you'll have an array called $POST['myinput'] with 10 elements. You could then process these elements any way you like.

If you wanted to pass this array to yet another page, the easiest way to do it is with a $_SESSION variable. At the beginning of yoru PHP code, simply call:

session_start();

Then to pass your array to another page, simply set a session variable equal to the array like so:

$_SESSION['myarray']=$_GET['myinput'];

Then on any subsequent pages, you can access this array by calling session_start() on the page and then accessing your $_SESSION['myarray'] just as you would any other array. It's really not tricky at all.

Hope that helps.