[RESOLVED] regular expressions question

[PartDigital]

How would I go about getting all the field names in a form using regular expressions?

I have a file like this

<form method  = "POST">
   <input type = "text" name = "myTititle" value = "Title" />

</form>

I want to be able to grab the value of name so that it returns "myTitle"

[NogDog]

Please convince me that this is not so that you can create yet another form bot to abuse the net and annoy the rest of us. 😕 :eek:

[Riddick]

<?php
foreach($_POST as $key => $val){
echo "
$key $val <br>
";
}
?>

Where the $key will be your fieldname and $val the value

[PartDigital]

NogDog
I'm using it to parse out a template file.

Riddick
I'm thoroughly familiar with $_POST variables and the foreach loop. What I'm trying to do is this.

1. Load the file into a variable (this I can do)
2. Parse through the variable and by using regular expressions find all the form names (before I submit the form)

so for instance:

  <form method = "POST">
     <input type = "text" name = "myTitle" value = "myValue" />

 <textarea name = "myDescription" rows = "8" cols = "40"></textarea>

 </form>

If I submitted this form I could simply use the foreach loop to get the form names, but in this case I want to know what the names are BEFORE I submit it so that I can dynamically grab information from the database and input it into the template.

I could use text parsing to find it but that takes a lot of time and isn't as elegant nor as fast as regular expressions.

my best guess would be something like this:

$template = "
  <form method = "POST">
     <input type = \"text\" name = \"myTitle\" value = \"myValue\" />

 <textarea name = \"myDescription\" rows = \"8\" cols = \"40\"></textarea>

 </form>";

$regex = ereg("\bname\b[\s]*=\b\"[a-zA-Z0-9]*\"\b", $template, $regex); 

I've studied regular expressions but I haven't practiced enough to be comfortable with them yet. So any kind of help would be appreciated.

[PartDigital]

I figured it out. Thanks guys