array from form

[CybertoothTiger]

I want to create an array from fields in a form - the form is thus..

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<form action="handle_calc_2.php" method="post">

input type="text" name="prod[]" value="shampoo" size="15" />shampoo

input type="text" name="price[ ]" value="15.00" size="5" />

input type="text" name="quantity[ ]" size="5" />

THE PHP ---------------------------

$products = array (
array ('name' => $POST[prod], 'price'=> $POST[price], 'quantity' => $_POST[quantity])
);

print " $product[name] at $product[price] quantity ordered $product[quantity]<br /><br />";

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I want the quantity added by the user to parse as $quantity and then add a total.

Where am I going wrong please

many thanks in advance.

Cybertooth Tiger😕

[Installer]

• Spelling is important. "$product[]" is not the same as "$products[]".
• Your post variables aren't arrays, so leave off the "[]" in the form.
• Your code defining "$products[]" makes it a 2d array, but your "print" statement treats it as 1d. One level is enough.
• Put array indexes in quotes.
• Don't forget the angle brackets to start your input tags.

  <input type="text" name="prod" value="shampoo" size="15" />shampoo 
  <input type="text" name="price" value="15.00" size="5" /> 
  <input type="text" name="quantity" size="5" />

  $product = array('name'     => $_POST['prod'], 
                   'price'    => $_POST['price'], 
                   'quantity' => $_POST['quantity']); 
  print $product['name'] . ' at ' . $product['price'] . 
        ' quantity ordered ' . $product['quantity'] . '<br />';

  For that matter, your values are already in an array ("$_POST[]"), so you could just do this:

  print $_POST['prod'] . ' at ' . $_POST['price'] . 
        ' quantity ordered ' . $_POST['quantity'] . '<br />';

  Or just assign the "$_POST" array to "$product":

  $product = $_POST; 
  print $product['prod'] . ' at ' . $product['price'] . 
        ' quantity ordered ' . $product['quantity'] . '<br />';

[CybertoothTiger]

AH HA - I see now -

Many thanks Installer!

BTW - yes the spelling is a fair comment - I have got a "foreach" in the script which I did not mention foreach

($products as $product) {.

I think I am on the right track.

many thanks again.

Cybertooth Tiger