problem fetching info from form with name + id

tomer_shim

Hello,
I am using snoopy php class (http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy) to build a 'auto submitter' for an online form. to do so, I used an example code from the README page included in that class docs.
this is the example:

include "Snoopy.class.php";
	$snoopy = new Snoopy;

$submit_url = "http://lnk.ispi.net/texis/scripts/msearch/netsearch.html";

$submit_vars["q"] = "amiga";
$submit_vars["submit"] = "Search!";
$submit_vars["searchhost"] = "Altavista";


if($snoopy->submit($submit_url,$submit_vars))
{
	while(list($key,$val) = each($snoopy->headers))
		echo $key.": ".$val."<br>\n";
	echo "<p>\n";

	echo "<PRE>".htmlspecialchars($snoopy->results)."</PRE>\n";
}
else
	echo "error fetching document: ".$snoopy->error."\n";

while im trying to use this code for a regular form which has Text input boxes look like:

<input type="text" name="title" size="50" maxlength="50">

Then it works, all i need to do is edit the $submit_url and the $submit_vars array to the input 'name's.

The problem starts when i tried to use that class for input boxes which includes array's like:

<input type="text" name="title[]" size="50" maxlength="50" id="dt9" onchange="donh(this.id);">
<input type="text" name="url[]" size="30" id="du9" onchange="donh(this.id);">

I problem is that i dont know how to write the name of each of these input boxes in the $submit_vars array. i tried stuff like $submit_vars['name[id]'] = "something" (for example $submit_vars['title[dt9]'] = "blabla") but it didnt work. I need to know what is the syntax to do so.

This will really halp my project if someone could please help me.

Thank you in advance!!

bpat1434

multi-dimensional arrays:

$submit_vars['name']['id'] = "something"
$submit_vars['title']['dt9'] = "blablah"

Should work

tomer_shim

tried to make a simple code just to check if that will work...

<?
$re1 = $_POST['lala']['d1'];
$re2 = $_POST['bla']['g1'];
echo $re1;
echo $re2;
?>
<html>
    <FORM action="test.php" method="POST">
    test1: <INPUT type="TEXT" name="lala[]" id = "d1"><BR>
    test2: <INPUT type="TEXT" name="bla[]" id = "g1"><BR>
    <INPUT type="SUBMIT">
    </FORM>

but it didnt.. nothing gets echo'ed 🙁
did i do anything wrong?

bpat1434

no no no.... of course that won't work 🙂

Change the php code of that to be this:

<?php
$re = $_POST['lala'][0];
$pre = $_POST['bla'][0];
echo $re.'<br>'.$pre;
?>

You can also [man]var_dump/man the $_POST array and see the following output:

array(2) {
  ["lala"]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    string(6) "value1"
  }
  ["bla"]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    string(6) "value2"
  }
}

so you see, the ID never gets passed through the posted form.

Now, if you wanted to get your value as you did, you'd have to say:

    <FORM action="test.php" method="POST">
    test1: <INPUT type="TEXT" name="lala[d1]"><BR>
    test2: <INPUT type="TEXT" name="bla[g1]"><BR>
    <INPUT type="SUBMIT">
    </FORM>

which when posted gives this output:

array(2) {
  ["lala"]=>
  array(1) {
    ["d1"]=>
    string(6) "value1"
  }
  ["bla"]=>
  array(1) {
    ["g1"]=>
    string(6) "value2"
  }
}

So it's up to you to decide how to progress forward.

tomer_shim

Ok, i think i understood. just to make sure:

When i want to see multi-dimensional arrays output on same form page, i use something like:

<?php 
$re = $_POST['lala'][0]; 
$pre = $_POST['bla'][0]; 
echo $re.'<br>'.$pre; 
?>

but when i want to use it with the class which i asked about on the main post, i use:

submit_vars['name']['id'] = "something";
$submit_vars['title']['dt9'] = "blablah";

is this correct?

bpat1434

I guess so, you'd have to test and find out.

tomer_shim

i just tested the code:

submit_vars['name']['id'] = "something";
$submit_vars['title']['dt9'] = "blablah";

Data wasnt sent to text boxes, as i got errors for not filling out boxes as an output for the snoopy php class.

Any other ideas to get it to work?

By the way i didnt thank you yet for this huge help and time you take to help me out here, so thank you 😉

bpat1434

I have no idea how it works (snoopy that is) so I couldn't tell you.

tomer_shim

Ok i understand. Thank you very much anyway 🙂

I'll be glad if someone who knows snoopy class could post any ideas about how should i fix this issue 🙂