How to use an array for this?

VooDooRT

I'm trying to get this to work and echo out something like:

$person[0]
$person[1]
$person[2]

With this code:

if($cmd !="post"){
echo("
  <tr>
    <td width='15%'><font size='1' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>How many people?</font></td>
    <td width='85%'><select name='numbers'>
	<option value>1</option>
	<option value>2</option>
	<option value>3</option>
	<option value>4</option>
	<option value>5</option>
	<option value>6</option>
    </select></td>
  </tr>
");
}
if($cmd == '$post'){
echo("
<table width='96%' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='3'>
");
while ($numbers > 0) { 
echo("
  <tr>
    <td width='15%'><font size='1' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>People Involved</font></td>
    <td width='85%'><select name='personnel'>
	<option value>1</option>
	<option value>2</option>
	<option value>3</option>
	<option value>4</option>
	<option value>5</option>
	<option value>6</option>
    </select></td>
  </tr>
</table>
");
$num--;
}
exit;
}

Then once I submit the later form, it will echo out all the personnel in a list for adding to a database.

tekky

well for starters

if($cmd !="post"){

should be $post I would think.... (judging by the 2nd use of that evaluation)

and 2ndly.... where is the data coming from.... SQL? txt file? all yo have there is a comparison that makes absolutely no sense as is to most people....

and your while loop will be infinite...

try

for($i=0;$i<$number;$i++)
{
     //do whatever you want in this loop
}

VooDooRT

Yeah, sorry about that. Those were pretty much two little bits of a great deal of code.

What I'm trying to do is have a dropdown that asks how many people you want to select. once that form is submitted, is goes to $cmd 'post' and will show one dropdown for every person you selected on the original form. So, if you selected 4 on the first form, it would show up 4 seperate dropdown menus on the second form, all with the exact same information in them. Once that form is submitted, it will show a list of all the four dropdowns you selected from the second form...

form 1-how many?
form 2-names of the many
posted-show all the names

VooDooRT

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LordShryku

If I understand, here's what I'd suggest....

############
## form 1 ##
############
<form name="blah" method="post" action="form2.php">
How many people? 
<input type="text" name="numbers">

############
## form 2 ##
############
<?
for($i=0;$i<$_POST['numbers'];$i++) {
   echo "<select name=\"people[]\">
           <option value=\"blah\">";
          // all your options
}
?>

############
## form 3 ##
############
<?
for($i=0;$i<count($_POST['people']);$i++) {
   echo $_POST['people'][$i]."<br>";
}
?>

VooDooRT

Worked great, thanks!