problem with posting multiple text inputs with dynamically created names

[yusufsaran]

hello all!

i have some trouble with php and mysql. i am creating a table with multiple rows. each row has a text area input and i want to give a unique name for each input. in the next page i want to control the text field values.

for example;

for($i=0;mysql_fetch_object($result) ;$i++)
{
echo '<tr>
<td><input type = "textarea" name = "input'.$i.'"></td>
</tr>';
}

i tried this but in the next page when i was controlling the form variables i couldn't use the variable name. i was forced to use variable names like $input1, $input2 etc... . since i couldn't create variable names like $input1, $input2 forever(!) i couldn't find a efficient solution to my problem.

does this problem have a solution?

thanks!

[tsinka]

Hi,

do this

$i = 0;
while ($obj = mysql_fetch_object($result)) {
echo '<tr><td>'
    .'<input type = "textarea" name = "input['
    .$i
    .']"></td></tr>';
$i++; 
} 

This will be posted as an array named input to the script.
The array values are the textarea contents.

The correct html syntax for textareas is e.g.

<textarea name="thename" cols="10" rows="5">
some text
</textarea>

Thomas

[yusufsaran]

thanks for your advice, it fixed my problem!