So...

I have a form with 14 sets of identical fields to track penalties in a sporting event. Each field allows the selection of a name, penalty, severity and number of times it was repeated.

That is all well and good, but I would like to read each of these 14 lines into an array on the form processing script. The bugger I have is I can't crack the syntax to allow me to us an $i variable to read from the form fields.

So, for example, each line submits a numbered value: Player1, Infraction1, Level1, Repeat1... Player2, Infraction2, Level2, Repeat2... Player3, Infraction3, and so on.

I wanted to read these into the array like so, but I don't know how I can incorporate the incremental variable into the post name:

for ($i=1;$i<=14;$i++)
{
	$penPlayer[$i] = $_POST['player$i'];
	$penInfract[$i] = $_POST['infraction$i'];
	$penLevel[$i] = $_POST['level$i'];
	$penRepeat[$i] = $_POST['repeat$i'];
	echo "$i $penPlayer[$i] $penInfract[$i] $penLevel[$i] $penRepeat[$i]<BR><BR>";
}

This code doesn't work. It doesn't like:
$penPlayer[$i] = $POST['player'$i];
nor
$penPlayer[$i] = $POST[player$i];

So how do you use an incremental variable to roll through these various post variables?

Thanks!

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    No, there are more simple way to resolve your problem:

    <form>
          <input type='text' name='user[]'/>
          <input type='text' name='user[]'/>
          <input type='text' name='user[]'/>
</form>

    HTML forms support arrays of data too.

    Proceeding on serverside:

    <?php
//....
for($i=0;$i<count($_POST['user']);$i++)
{
      print $_POST['user'][$i];
}
//....
?>

      Also for future reference use double quotes rather than single when trying to do what you are currently attempting. But the above post is right it is the easier way.

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