I'm using a single script to generate a table with <input>s in each row.
I fill the array with initial values, then write it out to the table
and let the user edit the values. Something like:
$myarray = $array(1, 2, 3, ... 100);
echo 'Enter your changes, then click Submit:';
foreach ($array as $i)
echo '<table tags> <input value="'.$i.'" name="index.'$i.'"> <table
tags>';
When the user clicks Submit, I need to pull the values back into the
array so I can re-display & operate on it. The data is in $_POST, which
is associative and contains stuff other than my array. $_POST contains
something like:
Submit=>submit
someVariable=>someValue
anotherVariable=>anotherValue
index1=>1
index2=>99
index3=>93.2
....
index100=>-3
After doing a quick google search, I tried:
for ($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++)
{
$name = 'index'.$i;
$array[$i] = $_POST["$name"];
}
It runs, but I get nothing out of $_POST - those key values are unset.
Is my only option to inefficiently iterate through $_POST AND $myarray,
and doing the assignment to the proper element when I find the
corresponding name in $_POST's key?
Can I use the $_POST keys as indexes in a loop? If so, is it *safe* to
do that, and what's the syntax? Something vaguely like:
for ($i = 0, $key = index1; $i < 100 && $key < index100; $i++, $key++)
array[$i] = $_POST[$key];
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