[RESOLVED] Collecting form data without knowing textfield names

[tpclarke2]

Hello. I have a giant form, an order pad for internal employees, that has hundreds of text fields. The names of the text fields are product codes, the values that are returned are quantities.

Example: <input type = 'text' name='ABC123 Product 1' size='3' maxlength='3'>

I need to collect the data from the order pad and generate an email to the office with the order. How do I parse the incoming form to collect the text field name and value?

I am guessing this will be done via $HTTP_POST_VARS but do not know how to go out and get only the field names and values where something has been input by the user.

Thanks in advance for any and all assistance.

[Krik]

First use $_POST instead of $HTTP_POST_VARS

Second as $POST works like an array just loop through all the array entries grabbing the index and value

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

then include $message in your email body.

Do note the submit button will also be in the output just use an if/else to exclude it, or any other field, from the output.

[tpclarke2]

Thanks so much, I knew it was something like that but couldn't find any example code anywhere. Thanks again.