Another "loop" question...

[fartsniff]

I swear, these loops and for each's are going to kill me (if regex doesn't
first ;)

anyways, this is what i have:

if ($_POST['item_name1'] != "")
{
@$item_name1 = $_POST['item_name1'];
@$item_number1 = $_POST['item_number1'];
}

i am trying to come up with the best way (i.e. for each or something) to
process these.
basically, item_name can be anything from item_name1 to item_name99,
and i surely dont want to have a bunch of copy/pastes 99 times (or more,
the number depends on how much someone buys from me ;)

[Randell D.]

"fartsniff" <fa**@sniff.com> wrote in message
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I swear, these loops and for each's are going to kill me (if regex doesn't
first ;)

anyways, this is what i have:

if ($_POST['item_name1'] != "")
{
@$item_name1 = $_POST['item_name1'];
@$item_number1 = $_POST['item_number1'];
}

i am trying to come up with the best way (i.e. for each or something) to
process these.
basically, item_name can be anything from item_name1 to item_name99,
and i surely dont want to have a bunch of copy/pastes 99 times (or more,
the number depends on how much someone buys from me ;)

Why assign 99 values to 99 different variables when you could assign the
values to an array... one possible solution could be

foreach($_POST as $key=>$value)
{
$item_name[$key]="$value";
}

or perhaps better still

$item_name=$_POST;

Thus, if you have a form field named item_name1 which has a value "randell"
then you can print this element of the array like so:

print("item_name1 = $item_name[item_name1]");

or

$whatever=$item_name['item_name1'];

(note the single quotes)

Will that work?

[fartsniff]

sweet - that works perfect. thanks for helping out. i keep getting stuck
doing
"simple" things. my code always look clunky, works fine, just clunky and not
the most efficient.

thanks again.

"Randell D." <yo**************************@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"fartsniff" <fa**@sniff.com> wrote in message
news:vg************@corp.supernews.com...

I swear, these loops and for each's are going to kill me (if regex doesn't first ;)

anyways, this is what i have:

if ($_POST['item_name1'] != "")
{
@$item_name1 = $_POST['item_name1'];
@$item_number1 = $_POST['item_number1'];
}

i am trying to come up with the best way (i.e. for each or something) to
process these.
basically, item_name can be anything from item_name1 to item_name99,
and i surely dont want to have a bunch of copy/pastes 99 times (or more,
the number depends on how much someone buys from me ;)
Why assign 99 values to 99 different variables when you could assign the
values to an array... one possible solution could be

foreach($_POST as $key=>$value)
{
$item_name[$key]="$value";
}

or perhaps better still

$item_name=$_POST;

Thus, if you have a form field named item_name1 which has a value

"randell" then you can print this element of the array like so:

print("item_name1 = $item_name[item_name1]");

or

$whatever=$item_name['item_name1'];

(note the single quotes)

Will that work?