Array Question

[gotornot]

I am creating a form that generates fields dynamically on the fly as per database requirements.
When i submit the form the field names are generated by the database name for the option they are.

How do i collect them the other end and insert them into a db?

I can add a $vale = $_REQUEST[''];for each one as there will be lots of combinations

Is there any quick way of grabbing passed over data and spliting it up?

[Bjom]

explode?

[BuzzPHP]

Try passing fields by arrays with indexs or keys.

There is some code here:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/1204.htm

<input type="text" name="user[firstname]" value="Graham"> 
<input type="text" name="user[lastname]" value="Stewart"> 
<input type="text" name="user[gender]" value="M"> 

The submit page will now have access to the array as $POST['user'] (or $GET['user'] if you use a GET method on the form).

And of course you can do multi-dimensional arrays like this too..

<input type="text" name="product[1][name]" value="Widget"> 
<input type="text" name="product[2][name]" value="Grommit"> 

I know there is a page on the PHP site for this feature, but I cant find it atm.

[BuzzPHP]

Found one: (Hope this helps)

http://au2.php.net/variables.external

<?php
if ($_POST) {
    echo '<pre>';
    echo htmlspecialchars(print_r($_POST, true));
    echo '</pre>';
}
?>
<form action="" method="post">
    Name:  <input type="text" name="personal[name]" /><br />
    Email: <input type="text" name="personal[email]" /><br />
    Beer: <br />
    <select multiple name="beer[]">
        <option value="warthog">Warthog</option>
        <option value="guinness">Guinness</option>
        <option value="stuttgarter">Stuttgarter Schwabenbräu</option>
    </select><br />
    <input type="submit" value="submit me!" />
</form> 

Should be easy to iterate the submitted data and generate SQL INSERT statements automaticlly.