Looping?

[Cely]

Hi 🙂 I'm trying to create a script to tally up voting-by-checkbox for several different icons, but I'm not sure how to set it up so that one loop adds each seperately. Or would I have to write a snippet for each? There are 50 icons per batch, so I really hope it's the former.

       |1pt |2pts|3pts|4pts|5pts|
icon 1 | x  |	 |  x |  x |	|
icon 2 |    |  x |    |    |  x |
icon 3 | x  |	 |  x |	   |	|
icon 4 |    |  x |    |  x |    |
icon 5 |    |	 |    |	   |    |

icon 1 = 8pts
icon 2 = 7pts

[spyro187]

Couldn't you read everything in an array and the go through the array and tally every 5 sets of data?

[Cely]

Um, I suppose. It's how to loop through each array that I'm fuzzy on.

[spyro187]

Take the top chart for example. it is 5x5 which would be 25 spaces of data 0-24. Start a loop at 0 and read each peice of data in until you get to 24. You could name each checkbox with a number to make it easier to read through or until you find a better way. Look up a while loop on php.net and start from there.

[Cely]

spyro187 wrote:

You could name each checkbox with a number to make it easier to read through or until you find a better way. Look up a while loop on php.net and start from there.

So I can't use just one bit of code to loop through all 50 entries? The script'll require all 50 arrays to be written out, is that right?

[spyro187]

Yes you can you one set of code to loop throgh, it's called a "while loop". You won't have to wrtie out each one individually if that is what you are asking.

[Cely]

spyro187 wrote:

Yes you can you one set of code to loop throgh, it's called a "while loop". You won't have to wrtie out each one individually if that is what you are asking.

Okay. Thanks!

[Cely]

Um, this really didn't work. x.X,

<?php
$pts[0] = '1';
$pts[1] = '2';
$pts[2] = '3';
$pts[3] = '4';
$pts[4] = '5';

$stop = 50;
$x = 0;

while ($x < $stop) {
$icon = $x + 1;
echo "$icon": ".array_sum($pts)<br>";
++$x;
}
?>

[leatherback]

I think this should work, nont-test though.

In your form have the variable names setup like:

icon 1
<input type="check" name="iconvotes[1][]">1
<input type="check" name="iconvotes[2][]">2
<input type="check" name="iconvotes[3][]">3
<input type="check" name="iconvotes[4][]">4
<input type="check" name="iconvotes[5][]">5

When the form is posted, that should give you an array
$_POST['iconvotes']

Which only holds the checked boxes.

$voted = $_POST['iconvotes'];
$tally = array();
for($i = 0; $i,$number_of_icons; $i++)
  {
  $tally[$i+1] = $voted[1][$i] +$voted[2][$i] +$voted[3][$i] +$voted[4][$i] +$voted[5][$i];
  }

which should give you a total for each icon. This is not completely correct, as you should really check whether a value is present, so, you should really add something like this for each vote option:

if(! isset($voted[1][$i]))
  {
  $voted[1][$i] = 0;
  }

[Cely]

Thank you so much 😃