Too many Session Vars!!!

Savaal

I have a form that I want to display to allow users to check the final page for errors. I have about 60 variables entered, and I wanted to use session vars to do it, so I don't have to keep parsing POST vars into hidden fields. I wanted to know if there was a quick way to parse a form and make all the vars into session vars without all the typing, like the extract() function... Any help out there?

r270ba

possibly create a session array. . .

stolzyboy

regardless which way you go, $POST, $GET, or $_SESSION are arrays themselves, so you could likely implode/explode them and run through the array with a for/foreach/etc... to trim/htmlspecialchars/stripslashes/etc....

Savaal

I was thinking of doing a while loop with the extracted post data to create dynamically named session vars. I am not sure how to do that, though...

while(extract($POST))
// for each entry, convert it to a $SESSION['x'] format var.

Can this be done?

stolzyboy

if (is_array($_POST))
    {
        // Loop through POST array
        foreach($_POST as $key => $value)
        {
            $_POST[$key] = stripslashes($value);
        }
    }

likewise for $GET, $COOKIE, $_SESSION

Savaal

Hey, thanks so much for your help. That was exactly what I needed. I didn't know about the $key -> $value thing. I will do some reading on the subject... You have been an awesome help. This is the BEST PHP forum I have ever seen!

minorgod

That seems like a colossal waste of time when you could just set a subkey of your session array equal to your entire $POST or $GET array like this:

$_SESSION['getvars']=$_GET;
$_SESSION['postvars']=$_POST;

//Now $_SESSION['getvars'] holds all your submitted form data 
//and you can access them just like any old sub-array:

echo $_SESSION['getvars']['getvar1'];

//or you could loop through them and do something:

foreach($_SESSION['getvars'] as $value){
     echo $value;
}

Just remember, all these SUPERGLOBALs are ARRAYS and they behave just like any other PHP array.