[Resolved] Problem with INPUT text array from HTML form

Black_Rider

I'm having a problem with an array that comes from a HTML form where the input type is text (i.e. <input type="text">).

Here's a sample of the HTML code.
<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" align="center" border="0">
<tr>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">School:</td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left"><input type="text" size="25" name="schoolname[]" class="input_text" /></td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">From:</td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left"><input type="text" size="15" name="schooldatefrom[]" class="input_text" /></td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">To:</td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left"><input type="text" size="15" name="schooldateto[]" class="input_text" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">School:</td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left"><input type="text" size="25" name="schoolname[]" class="input_text" /></td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">From:</td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left"><input type="text" size="15" name="schooldatefrom[]" class="input_text" /></td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">To:</td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left"><input type="text" size="15" name="schooldateto[]" class="input_text" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">School:</td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left"><input type="text" size="25" name="schoolname[]" class="input_text" /></td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">From:</td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left"><input type="text" size="15" name="schooldatefrom[]" class="input_text" /></td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">To:</td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left"><input type="text" size="15" name="schooldateto[]" class="input_text" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">School:</td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left"><input type="text" size="25" name="schoolname[]" class="input_text" /></td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">From:</td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left"><input type="text" size="15" name="schooldatefrom[]" class="input_text" /></td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">To:</td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left"><input type="text" size="15" name="schooldateto[]" class="input_text" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">School:</td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left"><input type="text" size="25" name="schoolname[]" class="input_text" /></td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">From:</td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left"><input type="text" size="15" name="schooldatefrom[]" class="input_text" /></td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">To:</td>
<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left"><input type="text" size="15" name="schooldateto[]" class="input_text" /></td>
</tr>
</table>

This is sent to a PHP script which uses a for loop and goes through the array.

for ($i = 0; $i < count($_POST['schoolname']); $i++)
{
	$schools = '<tr>'."\n";
	$schools .= '<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">School:</td>'."\n";
	$schools .= '<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left">'.$_POST['schoolname'][$i].'</td>'."\n";
	$schools .= '<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">From:</td>'."\n";
	$schools .= '<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left">'.$_POST['schooldatefrom'][$i].'</td>'."\n";
	$schools .= '<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="right">To:</td>'."\n";
	$schools .= '<td valign="top" class="input_titles" align="left">'.$_POST['schooldateto'][$i].'</td>'."\n";
	$schools .= '</tr>'."\n";
}

Later on, this is outputted as shown below (using heredoc syntax)

<table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" align="center" border="0">
	{$schools}
</table>

When I view the output, I only see 'A' in the first row. Even though I input something else, it still shows that.

The same thing happens if there is nothing inputted into the fields.

Can someone tell me what is wrong? Later, I even changed the INPUT names to include an integer in the square brackets. Still I get the same output.

tsinka

Hi,

please post the complete script (as attachment). One problem is that you have

$schools = '<tr>'."\n";

as first line inside the loop. So $school just contains the contents of the last submitted schooldata. Besides that using foreach (and maybe changing the input names a little bit) might better in this case. But it's hard to guess anything without seeing the complete code.

Thomas