[cebuy]

I have a form that is dynamically generated with php but I am trying to code for it to email the differnt color options of a product. My problem is this.. if they choose 10 products in form then they can choose a different color for each one and I have these form names generated by the script...
p1_options_pitcher2
p1_options_pitcher3
p1_options_pitcher4
p1_options_pitcher5
p1_options_pitcher6
p1_options_pitcher7
p1_options_pitcher8
p1_options_pitcher9
p1_options_pitcher10

Example of 2 products chosen's form output..

PHP Code:

 <br><br> <font size=1 face=arial>Choose 2 Product Color:</font> <select name="p1_options_pitcher2">

                                                              <option selected>Pick Color</option>

                                                              <option value="Blue">Blue</option>

                                                              <option value="Green">Green</option>

                                                              <option value="Yellow">Yellow</option>

                                                              <option value="Yellow/Blue">Yellow/Blue</option>

                                                              <option value="Yellow/Green">Yellow/Green</option>

                                                              </select>

                                                     <br><br> <font size=1 face=arial>Choose 3 Product Color:</font>        

                                                              <select name="p1_options_pitcher3">

                                                              <option selected>Pick Color</option>

                                                              <option value="Blue">Blue</option>

                                                              <option value="Green">Green</option>

                                                              <option value="Yellow">Yellow</option>

                                                              <option value="Yellow/Blue">Yellow/Blue</option>

                                                              <option value="Yellow/Green">Yellow/Green</option>

                                                              </select> 

NOw my question is this... Is there any way to get a form to accept ANY form field field posted to it? What I am trying to say, is that I do not want to code for 50 like this...

PHP Code:

if (p1_options_pitcher2) {echo $p1_options_pitcher2;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher3) {echo $p1_options_pitcher3;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher4) {echo $p1_options_pitcher4;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher5) {echo $p1_options_pitcher5;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher6) {echo $p1_options_pitcher6;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher7) {echo $p1_options_pitcher7;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher8) {echo $p1_options_pitcher8;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher9) {echo $p1_options_pitcher9;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher10) {echo $p1_options_pitcher10;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher11) {echo $p1_options_pitcher11;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher12) {echo $p1_options_pitcher12;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher13) {echo $p1_options_pitcher13;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher14) {echo $p1_options_pitcher14;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher15) {echo $p1_options_pitcher15;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher16) {echo $p1_options_pitcher16;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher17) {echo $p1_options_pitcher17;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher18) {echo $p1_options_pitcher18;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher19) {echo $p1_options_pitcher19;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher20) {echo $p1_options_pitcher20;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher21) {echo $p1_options_pitcher21;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher22) {echo $p1_options_pitcher22;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher23) {echo $p1_options_pitcher23;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher24) {echo $p1_options_pitcher24;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher25) {echo $p1_options_pitcher25;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher26) {echo $p1_options_pitcher26;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher27) {echo $p1_options_pitcher27;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher28) {echo $p1_options_pitcher28;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher29) {echo $p1_options_pitcher29;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher30) {echo $p1_options_pitcher30;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher31) {echo $p1_options_pitcher31;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher32) {echo $p1_options_pitcher32;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher33) {echo $p1_options_pitcher33;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher34) {echo $p1_options_pitcher34;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher35) {echo $p1_options_pitcher35;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher36) {echo $p1_options_pitcher36;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher37) {echo $p1_options_pitcher37;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher38) {echo $p1_options_pitcher38;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher39) {echo $p1_options_pitcher39;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher40) {echo $p1_options_pitcher40;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher41) {echo $p1_options_pitcher41;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher42) {echo $p1_options_pitcher42;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher43) {echo $p1_options_pitcher43;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher44) {echo $p1_options_pitcher44;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher45) {echo $p1_options_pitcher45;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher46) {echo $p1_options_pitcher46;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher47) {echo $p1_options_pitcher47;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher48) {echo $p1_options_pitcher48;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher49) {echo $p1_options_pitcher49;} else {} 

if (p1_options_pitcher50) {echo $p1_options_pitcher50;} else {} 

What if someone orders 51? I do not know how to ask this really but surely someone understands what I am asking. Working on http://www.somethingsouthernpottery....ts_testing.htm order first product to see what I am doing.

[cebuy]

I thought about making the form on second page ask for number of colors of each option instead of what I am trying to do. I think it will be simpler.

Output of Example...

PHP Code:

  Number of:<br>

  Blue: <input type="text" name="p1_Blue" size="6"> <br>

  Green: <input type="text" name="p1_Green" size="6"><br>

  Blue-Green: <input type="text" name="p1_Blue-Green" size="6"> etc... 

[nassau]

if someone has a solution for the original question i'd still be very interested. i have the exact same problem on my hands.

thanks

[digioz]

Maybe I am not understanding your question correctly. But wouldn't it be much easier to put one of the lines:

Code:

 if (p1_options_pitcher2) {echo $p1_options_pitcher2;} else {} 

inside a FOR loop or a do - while loop and have it loop through n times to do what you want?

[cebuy]

Well if you notice, the variable name changes everytime from $p1_options_pitcher2 to $p1_options_pitcher3 and so forth. how would you "generate" the variables based on a certain number (in this case $p1="50"; or whatever)?

[ben.periton]

How about something like

PHP Code:

foreach ($_POST as $key=>$value) {

    if ((strstr($key,'p1_options_pitcher') && isset($key)) {

        echo $value;

    }

} 

[SwitchBlade]

a for loop would be the easiest thing to do probably

[cebuy]

I looked on php.net for information on isset (i am pretty much newbie to all this) and found this example...

PHP Code:

<?php



$a = array ('test' => 1, 'hello' => NULL);



var_dump(isset($a['test']));            // TRUE

var_dump(isset($a['foo']));            // FALSE

var_dump(isset($a['hello']));          // FALSE



// The key 'hello' equals NULL so is considered unset

// If you want to check for NULL key values then try: 

var_dump(array_key_exists('hello', $a)); // TRUE



?>

Do I need to set up an array like this?

Also, please look here for an idea on the overall picture of what I am trying to do... http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/show...4#post10587644 I am not so much doing it like I was at start of this post (as indicated by my post here at 01-19-05 09:22 PM) , but you can see where I am at by going to phpbuilder's forum.

[khurram khan]

you need to do something like this..

PHP Code:

$num_fields = 50;



for ($i = 0; $i < $50; $i++)

{

          print "<select name=\"p1_options_pitcher[$i]\">";

          ...

          print "</select>";

} 

That will print the form in the first place... then after it is submitted... you can access the form variables by doing something like...

PHP Code:

foreach ($_POST[p1_options_pitcher] as $key=>$val)

{

          print "$key: $val;"

} 

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