Need some help anyone...

nai

Hello all,

i got a problem here. I am trying to loop through a few arrays in one page "form.php" and send the results from the looping into an email or a database some how.

here is my code, some of it at least:

 
<tr> <form action="test.php" method="post"><tr> 
    <td height="21" valign="top">word</td>
    <td colspan="4" valign="top"><input type="checkbox" name= "office[]" value="interested to learn word"></td>
    <td colspan="4" valign="top"><input type="checkbox" name="office[]" value="already know word"></td>
    <td colspan="3" valign="top"><input type="checkbox" name="office[]" value="can do word from home"></td>
    <td colspan="2" valign="top"><input type="checkbox" name="office[]" value="can teach word"></td>
    <td></td>
  </tr>
  <tr> 
    <td height="23" valign="top">Excel</td>
    <td colspan="4" valign="top"><input type="checkbox" name= "office[]" value="interested to learn excel"></td>
    <td colspan="4" valign="top"><input type="checkbox" name="office[]" value="already know excel"></td>
    <td colspan="3" valign="top"><input type="checkbox" name="office[]" value="can do excel from home"></td>
    <td colspan="2" valign="top"><input type="checkbox" name="office[]" value="can teach word"></td>
  </tr> 
<? 
 $empty = $post = array();
foreach ($_POST as $varname => $varvalue) {
    if (empty($varvalue)) {
        $empty[$varname] = $varvalue;
    } else {
        $post[$varname] = $varvalue;
    }
}

/* i am trying to write code here that will take the values from all of the $varvalue and put them in a nicely formatted layout flat file and then be emailed automatically to a user. Any other solution would be good so that it can be sent to someone for review.
*/

thankx,

nai

Kris_Cox

Nai,

It looks like you may be trying to process the form data before it was posted. Until it is posted by the user, you have no access to the data entered (it is just sitting on your user's browser). Be sure that you have a submit button and you know where it is submitting your form data to (this is where you will need to process your form data).

For example, a submit button for the form statement:

<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">

will result in the data being posted recursively to the same page that your form is on. You should then have an "IF" statement at the top of your page to check to see if the page is loading due to a submission to itself:

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
}

Within this "IF" statement is where you should process your data. Of course, if your page is loading for the first time, it will skip this "IF" statement and just display the form.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Kris Cox