getting HTML form data...

[Anon]

feel dumb starting a thread with that title. I know how to get it, I'm just wondering what form it comes in. It's coming from a form that has a multiple line field, where the end user is going to paste in a lot of usernames like so:

user1
user2
user3

etc. ad nauseum. There will be more than one of these fields, the others will have passwords and the full name of the user. I then need to take all of that information, and print it out to a file that looks like this:

vadduser <<CUT
user1
user1password
user1fullname
CUT
vadduser <<CUT
user2
user2password
user2fullname
CUT

etc. etc. with all of the users. This file will then be run as a shell script to add many many users at once. Sound like a roundabout way to do things? Heck yeah, it is. I don't care, I'm having fun. But does anyone know how the data from the HTML form will arrive, so that I can make it play nice with my PHP script?

Thankee kindly, good sirs.

[Anon]

I am new to php but if the data is coming from a textarea box can you for it to be delimited by distinct characters suchas spaces or commas if so using the explode function would load all of the fields into an array where you would be able to process them easily.

textareaData equals tom bill pass1 pass2
$elements =explode (" ",$textareaData);
$elements[0]= tom
$elements[1]= bill
$elements[2]= pass1
$elements[3]= pass2
.
.
.
if multiple delimiters are used multple explodes can also be used

textareaData equals
tom,bill,frank pass1,pass2,pass3
$elements =explode (" ",$textareaData);
$elements[0]= tom,bill,frank
$elements[1]= pass1,pass2,pass3
$names =explode (",",$element[0]);
$passes =explode (",",$element[1]);

$names[0]=tom
$names[1]=bill
$names[2]=frank
$passes[0]=pass1
$passes[1]=pass2
$passes[2]=pass3

Hope this helps

Jeff