Terry J Daichendt wrote:
> I'm trying to create a form with a loop. I need to append a value to a
> field name each time through the loop. For Instance:
>
> while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
> $x=1;
> echo "<tr>"; echo "<td><input type='text' id='qty'
> name='quantity_' size='2' value='$row[qty]' /></td>";
> echo "</tr>";
> $x++;
> }
>
> the name value quantity needs the value of x appended to it. quantity_1,
> quantity_2 etc. What is the correct syntax to achieve this, especially
> the parsing to get it to work. I suspect the dot operator to append it
> but I can't get the parsing down.
>
> Terry Daichendt
echo '<td><input type="text" id="qty" name="quantity_' . $x . '"
size="2" value="' . $row['qty']. '" /></td>';
However, I would use an array:
echo '<td><input type="text" id="qty" name="quantity[' . $x . ']"
size="2" value="' . $row['qty']. '" /></td>';
Depending upon your use, you can even leave out the index and let it
increment.
echo '<td><input type="text" id="qty" name="quantity[]" size="2"
value="' . $row['qty']. '" /></td>';
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Thanks!
-Shawn
http://www.spidean.com
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