getting dynamic form fields

[dakey]

Hello, i hope you can help with this as im stuck!

i have a list of editable form fields that are dynamically created from the records in the database and are named:

$matchNo = "1";
/ loop through database records

<input name="home_score<? echo $matchNo; ?>" type="text" id="home_score<? echo $matchNo; ?>" value="<? echo $home_score; ?>" size="2" maxlength="2">

$matchNo = $matchNo + "1";

// end loop

When the user presses submit i then need to write these to another table. So how do i retrieve the list of form fields when they have dynamic names and the number of form fields differs each time?

many thanks

[laserlight]

With your current method, you would use $POST['home_score' . $i], where $i starts from 1. Unfortunately, it may be a little difficult to find out where $i should end unless you also pass the number of rows.

A better method might be:

<input name="home_score[]" type="text" id="home_score_<?php echo $matchNo; ?>" value="<?php echo $home_score; ?>" size="2" maxlength="2">

Now, the $_POST['home_score'] array would hold the values you want.