[Resolved] PHP Forms

[aksival]

I have a form that is generated by PHP according to a certain number of elements in a list. It kind of works like this:

<form action="do_something.php" method="post">
for ($i=0; $i < $elements; $i++) {

echo "<input type = \"text\" name = \"text_$i\">";

}
// Submit button, etc. goes here
</form>

If you can see where I'm going with this, you can probably tell what's next. If $elements is 5 there will be 5 text boxes, if $elements is 500 there will be 500 text boxes.

The question is how do I retrieve each of the form values when I get to do_something.php.

I am wondering if there is something similar to what Java uses for classes (forName), or if I should devise a better way of creating the forms.

Thanks,
Aksival

[devinemke]

return the elements an an array:

for ($i = 1; $i <= $elements; $i++)
{
	echo '<input type="text" name="text[' . $i . ']">';
}

you will then have an array called $_POST['text'] with numeric keys and the text values.

[aksival]

Great, I didn't know that you could do it that way. I'll try it tomorrow.

Thanks!