Form Processing

mpar612

I am dealing with an application that is going to have several very long forms (100 or so form fields per form). Is there a way to take everything that is posted in $POST[] and put it in an email or database without specifically typing out $POST for each form field?

Any guidance that could help send me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

HalfaBee

$message = '';
foreach( $_POST as $key => $value ) {
    $message .= "$key => $value\n";
}

Of course if you put it in a DB, you need to sanitize the input.

dagon

wrote this a few hours ago for the same purpose

while(list($key, $val) = each($_SESSION) {
$val = stripslashes($val);
$val = urlencode($val);
$dump .= $key .'=' .$val."\n"; 
}

mpar612

Thanks for the response.

I have been working with the piece of code below (thanks HalfaBee!).

$message = '';
foreach($_POST as $key => $value ) {
	$message .= "$key => $value\n";
}

I have experimented with the code and am trying to get it to filter out everything where the user has not entered anything. I tried inserting the following code and it did not work.

if($_POST != "") {
     $message = '';
         foreach($_POST as $key => $value ) {
	      $message .= "$key => $value\n";
         }
}

Also, I am trying to assign each $_POST to a session variable. I have not been able to get this code figured out. I was thinking that this could fall into the current foreach loop, but I have not had much luck getting any code to work.

Does anyone have any thoughts that could lead me in the right direction?

Thanks for all of your help!

dagon

if(!empty($_POST)) {
     $message = '';
         foreach($_POST as $key => $value ) {
	if(!empty($value)){
          $message .= "$key => $value\n";
}
         }
}

mpar612

Thanks! That code worked great. Now I am trying to make a slight modification and am having difficulty. Rather than emailing the results I now need to store them in an array and then the array in a session so I can use the data on another page. I have been trying several different things and came to the code below, but it is not working. My print_r sends out "Array ( [$key] => $value )" and does not populate the array with the appropriate values. Does my logic in making this work make sense and seem the most efficient? Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thanks in advance!

if(!empty($_POST)) {
			foreach($_POST as $key => $value ) {
				if(!empty($value)){
					$arr = array('$key' => '$value');

			}
		}	
	} 

$_SESSION['order'] = $arr;

print_r($arr);

leatherback

if(!empty($_POST)) {
  $arr = array()
            foreach($_POST as $key => $value ) {
                if(!empty($value)){
                    $arr[$key] = $value;
                }
            }    

        }

$_SESSION['order'] = $arr;

print_r($_SESSION['order'] );

Or you could use the $_SESSION['order'] straight away of course.