form submission

[yoteksin]

Hi everybody,

Thanks in advance for everyone who is helping me in my problem.

I am trying to process a submission form with php to an email adress. I have hidden fields that have values in the form. There are hidden fields with different values. when the user enter a value it should make some calculations and submit the form with the values. My problem is with array. Because when i tried to submit a couple values it works fine without using an array. If i tried to submit with array i s not sending what i wanted to . Can someone please help i will post some piece of my html code and php code.
Thanks

Name: <input type="text" name="Name" size="24">
Res. Phone:<input type="text" name="Resphone" size="24">
E-mail:<input type="text" name="Email" size="24">

Bookshelves, per section<input type="text" size="2" maxlength="3" name="item2"><input type="hidden" name="weight2" value="65"><input type="hidden" name="name2" value="Bookshelves, per section">

Chair, Arm<input type="text" size="2" maxlength="3" name="item3"><input type="hidden" name="weight3" value="60"><input type="hidden" name="name3" value="Chair, Arm">

Chair Rocker (wood)<input type="text" size="2" maxlength="3" name="item4"><input type="hidden" name="weight4" value="40"><input type="hidden" name="name4" value="Chair Rocker (wood)"></td>

My php Code is
<?
$message="
Name: ".$Name."
Resphone: ".$Resphone."
Email: ".$Email."
$name2: ".$item2." ".$weight2." ".$item2$weight2."
$name3: ".$item3." ".$weight3." ".$item3$weight3."
$name4: ".$item4." ".$weight4." ".$item4*$weight4." ";

$to = "[e-mail]";
$subject = "Submission Form ";

$header = "From: $Email\n"
. "Reply-To: $Email\n"
. "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
. "Content-type: text/plain; charset=\"ISO-8859-1\"\n"
. "Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable;\n";

mail($to,$subject,$message,$header);
?>

If i have just for items thats working fine because i dont need to have an array. But i have like 166 items. i need an array.

Other question is how can i just submit this items in a table to the email adress.

Thank you very much for taking time.

[devinemke]

<?php
$items = array(
'Bookshelves, per section' => 65,
'Chair, Arm' => 60,
'Chair Rocker (wood)' => 40
);

if (!isset($_POST['submit']))
{
	echo '
	<form action="" method="POST">
	Name: <input type="text" name="Name"><br>
	Res. Phone: <input type="text" name="Resphone"><br>
	E-mail: <input type="text" name="Email"><br>
	';

foreach ($items as $key => $value)
{
	echo $key . ': <input type="text" name="items[' . $key . ']"><br>';
}

echo '
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</form>
';
}
else
{
	$to = '[e-mail]';
	$subject = 'Submission Form';
	$message = 'Name: ' . $_POST['Name'] . "\n" . 'Res. Phone: ' . $_POST['Resphone'] . "\n" . 'Email: ' . $_POST['Email'] . "\n";
	foreach ($_POST['items'] as $key => $value)
	{
		$weight = $value * $items[$key];
		$message .= $key . ': ' . $value . ' x ' . $items[$key] . ' = ' . $weight . "\n";
	}
	$headers = 'From: ' . $_POST['Email'] . "\n" .  

	'Reply-To: ' . $_POST['Email'] . "\n" . 
	'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\n" .  

	'Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"' . "\n" . 
	'Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable;' . "\n";

mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers) or exit('error sending mail');
echo 'mail sent successfully'; 
}
?>

[yoteksin]

thanks for replying. It was really helpful. But there is another problem. I have 166 array items in the form. Can we just get the items from the form.

Thanks

[maxpup979]

$arr=$_POST;
foreach ($arr as $key => $value) {
   echo "Key: $key; Value: $value<br />\n";
}

[yoteksin]

thanks a lot guys. but i still have problems.

Instead of generating a php form, i would like to use my html form. Because I dont want to write the whole 166 items in an array. It took alot of time for me to write it. Second thing is when i use php generated form i can not set the textfields properly. it doesnt look nice as a web page. I need to stick with my html form.

Can you please help without generating form, how can i get 166 items and put them in a table and make calculations. send to an email adress as a table.

Thanks

I really appreciate your help.

[Weedpacket]

PHP forms? PHP just generates HTML - forms and all. Design your HTML form and have PHP generate that.

[yoteksin]

what i meant was i design my html form. My php script supposed to submit the certain values to my email when the user clicks submit button.
the problem in my script is i have 166 items and each item has their own names and values.

i can send the values to my email if i define them one by one. I want to use an array or anything to send the values to my email.
If you check my first post you will understand what i mean

Thanks

[Weedpacket]

If you renamed the form fields item[4], weight[3], whatever, then you'd have an array.
Or you could build the array from the form fields when you process the form. $item[$i]=$_POST['item'.$i] for $i from 1 to 166.

[devinemke]

Weedpacket wrote:

If you renamed the form fields item[4], weight[3], whatever, then you'd have an array.
Or you could build the array from the form fields when you process the form. $item[$i]=$_POST['item'.$i] for $i from 1 to 166.

...which is essentially what i did in my example above.

[Weedpacket]

Yup; the answer hasn't changed so maybe the question is wrong somehow.

[yoteksin]

hey devinemke
Your answer was right. I got lots of idea about your answer. But i have 166 items and i dont want create an array which includes 166 items. Instead of creating that i would like to get whole item values from my html form and just use it in my php script.