NYCPHP Meetup

[Oktay Altunergil]

Are you generating those variable names on the fly while drawing the form ?

You might be able to get the variables in an array.. Try the following..

let's say you're working on game 13 and 45.. name your radio buttons (each set of them I per game) as

name=game[13]
...
...
name=game[45]


WHen this is submitted, you can just traverse the 'game' array which will have game id as the index and the value being the user's pick for that particular game. Obviously you can automate the creation of the form by using a variable as the index.. (name=game[$current_id])

Good luck.

Oktay Altunergil

PS: completely untested (not that there's code in the message.. but anyway :P )

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 10:39:29 -0400
Brent Baisley <brent at landover.com> wrote:

> Thanks, I know that works. I should have been clearer. I actually only want
> to cycle through some of the fields, not all. For instance, other fields
> that are posted are the player ID, Week ID, and number of Games.
> 
> So I really want to just grab a subset of all the posted fields, the subset
> being the first (or last) x fields, x being the number of games. I know I
> could use the loop below with an incrementing variable and an exit, but I
> just feel that I'm missing something more elegant.
> 
> > foreach($_POST as $var => $val) {
> > echo "The field named $var has the value $val<br>\
";
> > }
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brent Baisley [mailto:brent at landover.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 9:05 AM
> > To: NYPHP Talk
> > Subject: [nycphp-talk] Cycling through posted variables
> > 
> > I'm trying to cycle through the "fields" posted through a form submit. I
> > need to cycle through the "fields" because I won't know the names of the
> > fields since the field name actually represents a value. I tried going
> > through the $HTTP_POST_VARS route and $_POST. Since this is suppose to be an
> > array, I thought I could cycle through using something like $_POST[0][1],
> > but this doesn't seem to work.
> > For testing, if I do $_POST["Game1"], then it works. Any ideas what I'm
> > doing wrong or a better approach?
> > 
> > Why do I need to do something like this? Well, I'm designing a system to
> > handle a football pool I manage every year. This piece is for submitting a
> > users picks for the week. I want the field name to be the Game ID and the
> > value would be the Team ID. The picks screen uses radio buttons and the user
> > picks the winner for each game. All games for the week (~12) are displayed
> > at once for convenience.
> > 
> > I'm using PHP 4.1.2 (on OSX), but can upgrade if need be. I probably should
> > anyway.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Brent Baisley
> > Systems Architect
> > Landover Associates, Inc.
> > Search & Advisory Services for Advanced Technology Environments
> > p: 212.759.6400/800.759.0577
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Brent Baisley
> Systems Architect
> Landover Associates, Inc.
> Search & Advisory Services for Advanced Technology Environments
> p: 212.759.6400/800.759.0577
> 
>