[Resolved] Array Problem

[jazappi]

If I want to have a form that that allows people to put a address in and add mulitple people under that address. So what they do is put the address info in, then they add a name, and click a button that allows them to add another name, I am using javascript to draw another row with a input box in it. They can add as many names as they want, when they hit submit, I can see the multiple names in the URL passing, but how can I get each one into a new line in the db. I know I need to have it be some kind of array but how do I make a standard form input into a array?

I don't know if that will make sense so feel free to ask questions.

Joey

[kingbear]

how many address fields are you using in the DB? If you're just using 1 address field, then I would just seperate each one with a special character like ''. When you extract the field, split by '' and you'll have all the addresses.

[AstroTeg]

If its just names you're adding, you could try setting up the form text input name as an array. Let's say you have a text input box to get 1 name. Name it "personname[]" (or whatever you like, just include the "[]" on the end). Have your JavaScript add additional text boxes and keep the exact same name with the "[]" on the end.

Upon submitting, your PHP code will treat $GET['personname'] as an array (try count($GET['personname']) which should give you the number of names provided. Then to access the first one, you could do $_GET['personname'][0] (swap the 0 with the row of the name you wish to retrieve).

This works really well with check boxes and the such and I think it would be a good fit for what you're doing.

[jazappi]

I was doing the custname[] earlier and it wasn't coming in as in array for some reason, after you suggested I tried it again and sure enough it worked, I swear that whenever I post a help quesion to these forums that my scripts magicly start working.

Thanks for the help to all of you.