[RESOLVED] Inserting Default Array Values back into a form Input Field

juniper747

Basically, if an error comes up (for whatever reason), I want the initially entered values to re-appear, so that the user doesn't have to refill in the fields. This works just fine for my NON-array inputs, but I'm having trouble with making the Array values re-appear. Here's what I have:

In php:

$contacts = "";
$contacts = $_POST['contacts'];

In the html:

<tr>
           <td><input name="contacts[]" type="text" id="contacts[]" value="<?php print "$contacts"; ?>" size="30" maxlength="50" /></td>
          	<td><input name="contacts[]" type="text" id="contacts[]" value="<?php print "$contacts"; ?>" size="30" maxlength="50" /></td>
         	<td><input name="contacts[]" type="text" id="contacts[]" value="<?php print "$contacts"; ?>" size="30" maxlength="50" /></td> 
          	<td><input name="contacts[]" type="text" id="contacts[]" value="<?php print "$contacts"; ?>" size="30" maxlength="50" /></td>
</tr>

Instead of putting the contact names back in the fields, my output result in this:

Array Array Array Array

bradgrafelman

juniper747;10979425 wrote:
Instead of putting the contact names back in the fields, my output result in this:

Array Array Array Array

Which is exactly what you should expect to see, since you're attempting to echo an [man]array[/man].

Instead, you'll need to echo each element of the array (e.g. $contacts[0], $contacts[1], etc.) in the appropriate location.

Also, couple of things about your HTML:

The "id" attribute must be unique amongst all elements. In other words, either give the inputs unique ID values or simply remove the 'id' attribute altogether.
When outputting variable data into HTML, you'll often want to use something like [man]htmlentities/man to prevent that data from breaking your HTML syntax.

juniper747

Worked perfectly, thanks!