Geting unknown $_POST names

dan_m40

Hi,

I am going to try to explain what I am trying to do, so sorry about the long post.

I am creating a buyers guide that has one table for customer information and 300+ tables with product information. Some of the products tables have fields for id# and product name only, while other tables require up to five additional fields for product descriptions.

I can create a form “on the fly” for the different products, with checkboxes for the product names and textboxes for additional information.

So now I want to enter a customer into the databases. I can enter the company information into the table because I know what variable names I used and which ones are required.
$POST[‘name’] $POST[‘address’] $_POST[‘phone’]
For the product information I don’t know what they checked. It could be one item or all items. What I did originally was have the name and value the same for the check boxes so something like code below would give me the items checked.

foreach($_POST as $val){
if($val != "" && $val != "Submit"){
print "$val <br>\n";
}
}

When the product information was added as textboxes the above code gives me what the person entered into the textbox and I have no idea for which product.

I get lost when I have the $_POST value but don’t know what the name of the variable is.

Any ideas on how to do this?

Dan

dan_m40

Wow now I feel like a fool I think I figured this out

foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
if($value){
print "$key = $value<br>";
}
}

This gives me the name and value information.

I am open for other way to do this.

Thanks
Dan

irish12

I'm not sure if I follow you but from my understanding you are not receiving the product name from the checkboxes.
If this is correct then what you need to do is create the product checkboxes as an array with the name of the product in the value attribute, or better still the productID in the value attribute, for example:

Then when submitted you could read in the products like this:

for($i=0;$i<count($products);$i++){
print $products[$i];

}

Only the boxes that were checked will be passed from the form.