[FX.php List] Accepting user input on multiple records simultaneously

[Leo R. Lundgren]

I'm not sure what your form fields look like, but perhaps you should  
consider placing them inside a holder, for example:

	<input type="text" name="dataRecords[$id]">

That will make the form contain several fields with different names  
as seen by the browser/HTML, but when PHP fetches it, it'll interpret  
it PHP-style, so you effectively have an array $POST['dataRecords'],  
which you can loop, for example:

	foreach($_POST['dataRecords'] as $id => $record) {
		// Do stuff..
	}

Unless it's an unusual case, I'd do it that way. I'd feel having a  
lot of variables in the $POST space, having the names of integers, is  
out of control (not literally, but it's not a nice thing :).

Regards, Leo


24 apr 2007 kl. 17.02 skrev Andrew Denman:

> You can do an unset($_POST[‘click’]); before running the foreach.
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> Andrew Denman
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> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org [mailto:fx.php_list- 
> bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Schwartz
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 8:35 PM
> To: FX.php Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Accepting user input on multiple records  
> simultaneously
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> Almost there with the brute force solution....
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> So far, I have:
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>         1) Added a check box to every line item in the line listing  
> of found records.
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>         2) Added a form around the entire listing, with submit button.
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>         3) Pointed the submit button to a new file that processes  
> the $_POST array (this is the root of the question)
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>         4) perform a foreach to update each record with the -recid  
> sent over from the check box on the original page.
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> Everything works in spite of my fumbling.  The only problem is that  
> I am using $_POST which returns exactly 1 line more than the actual  
> number of boxes checked (the input buttton name is included):
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> [1] => 1
>
>     [2] => 2
>     [3] => 3
>     [32] => 32
>     [34] => 34
>     [37] => 37
>     [41] => 41
>     [44] => 44
>     [48] => 48
>     [52] => 52
>     [click] => Submit Selections
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> So, the final loop of the foreach produces an error.
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> Is there a better way to handle the array from the $_POST?
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> J
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