How to get a form input array into a PHP array
PhpArraysFormsPhp Problem Overview
I have a form like the one below which is posted to contacts.php, and the user can dynamically add more with jQuery.
<input type="text" name="name[]" />
<input type="text" name="email[]" />
<input type="text" name="name[]" />
<input type="text" name="email[]" />
<input type="text" name="name[]" />
<input type="text" name="email[]" />
If I echo them out in PHP with the code below,
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['account'];
foreach($name as $v) {
print $v;
}
foreach($email as $v) {
print $v;
}
I will get something like this:
> name1name2name3email1email2email3
How can I get those arrays into something like the code below?
function show_Names($n, $m)
{
return("The name is $n and email is $m, thank you");
}
$a = array("name1", "name2", "name3");
$b = array("email1", "email2", "email3");
$c = array_map("show_Names", $a, $b);
print_r($c);
so my output is like this:
> The name is name1 and email is email1, thank you >The name is name2 and email is email2, thank you >The name is name3 and email is email3, thank you
Php Solutions
Solution 1 - Php
They are already in arrays: $name
is an array, as is $email
So all you need to do is add a bit of processing to attack both arrays:
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['account'];
foreach( $name as $key => $n ) {
print "The name is " . $n . " and email is " . $email[$key] . ", thank you\n";
}
To handle more inputs, just extend the pattern:
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['account'];
$location = $_POST['location'];
foreach( $name as $key => $n ) {
print "The name is " . $n . ", email is " . $email[$key] .
", and location is " . $location[$key] . ". Thank you\n";
}
Solution 2 - Php
E.g. by naming the fields like
<input type="text" name="item[0][name]" />
<input type="text" name="item[0][email]" />
<input type="text" name="item[1][name]" />
<input type="text" name="item[1][email]" />
<input type="text" name="item[2][name]" />
<input type="text" name="item[2][email]" />
(which is also possible when adding elements via JavaScript)
The corresponding PHP script might look like
function show_Names($e)
{
return "The name is $e[name] and email is $e[email], thank you";
}
$c = array_map("show_Names", $_POST['item']);
print_r($c);
Solution 3 - Php
You could do something such as this:
function AddToArray ($post_information) {
//Create the return array
$return = array();
//Iterate through the array passed
foreach ($post_information as $key => $value) {
//Append the key and value to the array, e.g.
//$_POST['keys'] = "values" would be in the array as "keys"=>"values"
$return[$key] = $value;
}
//Return the created array
return $return;
}
The test with:
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
var_dump(AddToArray($_POST));
}
This for me produced:
array (size=1)
0 =>
array (size=5)
'stake' => string '0' (length=1)
'odds' => string '' (length=0)
'ew' => string 'false' (length=5)
'ew_deduction' => string '' (length=0)
'submit' => string 'Open' (length=4)
Solution 4 - Php
You can use an array of fieldsets:
<fieldset>
<input type="text" name="item[1]" />
<input type="text" name="item[2]" />
<input type="hidden" name="fset[]"/>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<input type="text" name="item[3]" />
<input type="text" name="item[4]" />
<input type="hidden" name="fset[]"/>
</fieldset>
I added a hidden field to count the number of the fieldsets. The user can add or delete the fields and then save it.
Solution 5 - Php
I came across this problem as well. Given 3 inputs: field[], field2[], field3[]
You can access each of these fields dynamically. Since each field will be an array, the related fields will all share the same array key. For example, given input data:
- Bob, [email protected], male
- Mark, [email protected], male
Bob and his email and sex will share the same key. With this in mind, you can access the data in a for loop like this:
for($x = 0; $x < count($first_name); $x++ )
{
echo $first_name[$x];
echo $email[$x];
echo $sex[$x];
echo "<br/>";
}
This scales as well. All you need to do is add your respective array vars whenever you need new fields to be added.
Solution 6 - Php
However, VolkerK's solution is the best to avoid miss couple between email and username. So you have to generate HTML code with PHP like this:
<? foreach ($i = 0; $i < $total_data; $i++) : ?>
<input type="text" name="name[<?= $i ?>]" />
<input type="text" name="email[<?= $i ?>]" />
<? endforeach; ?>
Change $total_data to suit your needs. To show it, just like this:
$output = array_map(create_function('$name, $email', 'return "The name is $name and email is $email, thank you.";'), $_POST['name'], $_POST['email']);
echo implode('<br>', $output);
Assuming the data was sent using POST method.
Solution 7 - Php
This is an easy one:
foreach($_POST['field'] as $num => $val) {
print ' ' . $num . ' -> ' . $val . ' ';
}
Solution 8 - Php
Using this method should work:
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['account'];
while($explore=each($email)) {
echo $explore['key'];
echo "-";
echo $explore['value'];
echo "<br/>";
}