Variable list of parameters from HTML to PHP

[adiewadie247]

I have a form which is generated according to values in a database, so I don't know the (simple) names of the variables at runtime. Does anyone know how I can reference the variable list of variables in the destination PHP script.

This is what I have the moment, but I have had very little success in passing arrays from HTML to PHP in the past. If I can find out which elements in the array have been set I can then fetch the other information back out of the database.

eg.

<INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="config_id[5]">
<INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="config_id[4]">
<INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="config_id[3]">

Looking for a white knight or dame!

[devinemke]

code your form like so:

<INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="config_id[]" value="5"> 
<INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="config_id[]" value="4"> 
<INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="config_id[]" value="3">

in your form proccessor you will have an array called $_POST['config_id'] filled with all of the checked checkboxes (if any). depending of the logical flow of your app, if you need all of the unchecked boxes as well then stick the whole config_id array into a session on the form page, then you can access it again on the form proccessor page.

[adiewadie247]

I discovered that I also had a bug in my sending form

<form action="process_quote.php" method="post" enctype="text/plain">

should have been

<form action="process_quote.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

thanks.