[RESOLVED] Differentiate Post Variables

[spighita]

Hello,

I'm receiving some variables from PayPal and I'm trying to get only a selected few in an array.

The variables I'm receiving from Paypal are

$POST['item_name1']
$POST['item_name2']
etc

I'm first trying to count how many elements with the similar structure are being sent and then putting the results in an array.

Any ideas?

[dagon]

you can loop through the $_POST with foreach() and build your new array, need more details to be able to suggest anything more than that.

[spighita]

I did just that and it worked. I don't know if you want to see the test code I created to make it work, but thank again for your knowledgeable answer. Let me know and I'll post it.

[JVassie]

I wouldn't mind seeing it please 🙂

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[spighita]

<?php

$item_string_name="item_name";
$quantity_string_name="quantity";
$order_contents=array();
$quantity_contents=array();
foreach($_POST as $value=>$key){

$pos=strpos($value,$item_string_name);
$pos_q=strpos($value,$quantity_string_name);

if($pos===false){


}//if($pos==TRUE)){
	else {

$order_contents[][$value]=$key;
	}//else 
if($pos_q===false){
		//echo "not found";

}//if($pos==TRUE)){
	else {

$quantity_contents[][$value]=$key;
	}//else 

}//foreach($_POST as $value=>$key){
foreach($order_contents as $key=>$value){
	foreach($value as $k=>$v){
		echo $k ."=> ".$v."<br/>";
	}//foreach($value as $k=>$v){
}//foreach($order_contents as $key=>$value){

echo "<br />";

foreach($quantity_contents as $key=>$value){
	foreach($value as $k=>$v){
		echo $k ."=> ".$v."<br/>";
	}//foreach($value as $k=>$v){
}//foreach($order_contents as $key=>$value){


?>

<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="item_name1" value="Package A">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="item_name2" value="Package B">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="item_name3" value="Package C">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="item_name4" value="Package D">

<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="item_name5" value="Package E">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="item_nam" value="Package C">

<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="quantity1" value="Q 1">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="quantity2" value="Q 2">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="quantity3" value="Q 3">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="quantity4" value="Q 4">

<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="quantity5" value="Q 5">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="quantit" value="Q 6">


<INPUT TYPE="submit">
</FORM>

This is a code I used to test it out. If anyone has any suggestions on how to make this better, I'm all ears. But as it is, it works.

Thank you.