[Resolved] php and form variables

PJNEW

I wonder if anyone can help. I have a results page (Like a shopping basket) This page is in two sections. The first section has the items chosen plus an input box to enter quantity and a dynamically populated drop down to choose a particular finish if applicable to the item. The second section is asking user name, e-mail etc. I would like to wrap the whole lot in a form and pass to another php page.

I have two problems. How can I differentiate between the different result rows within the form? And, how can I pass the drop down selection. Bearing in mind that their could be a selection on each row or none at all depending on the item chosen. Complicated...for me anyway.

Any help appreciated

greg252

Counld't you just pass each item as a member of an array, on the following page, read the array (foreach)?

PJNEW

Thanks, got me on the right track...I think. I can access these arrays with $POST. I have spent the last few days (really) trying to work out how to access these arrays to be able to use the results to update a database and then use some of the information further down my script. At the moment I have this

$choice = array($_POST['SessItemID'],$_POST['quan'],$_POST['Description'],$_POST['frame']);

And if I use print_r I can produce an array of arrays as may be expected. So say, bearing in mind their can be any number of rows, how could I utilise this in an update statement. I have experimented with what seems like thousands of combinations using while loops, foreach blah, blah. All I want to do is do UPDATE table SET Quantity = ' values of $_POST['quan']' WHERE values of $_POST['SessItemID'] .....etc. sorry about demo code....just easiest way to show what I am on about. Anyone point ot the precise way of doing this?

PJNEW

OK changed the $choice array above to

$choice = array('SessID' =>$_POST['SessItemID'],'Quan'=>$_POST['quan'],'Desc'=>$_POST['Description'],'Frame'=>$_POST['frame']);

But the question still stands.

PJNEW

Obviously everyone on holiday. But I solved the problem elsewhere. Tried posting the code with PHP tags but wont take more than one line.