For loop to retreive form data - Probably simple fix

[Phil Gent]

Hi all.

I'm a noobie, so please bear with me !

I have written an html form with the following code..

<select name="player1"> options.... </select>
<select name="player2"> options.... </select>
<select name="player3"> options.... </select>
and so on.
 

I need to write the values of each select tag into an XML file BUT for the purpose of this exercise, I would like to be able to simply write the variable out using a 'for' function to loop through each.

Heres what I have, but it's not working (I didn't really expect it to as I think I'm approaching the problem from the wrong direction).

for ($i=1; $i<=14; $i++)
  {
  $text = '$_POST["player' . $i . '"]';
  echo  $text . <br />;
  }
 

If anyone knows of a way I can do this successfully then it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Phil

[Dormilich]

single quoted strings are not parsed for variables, i.e line 3 would result in the string literal '$_POST["player1"]' not the POST superglobal.

since you can’t be sure if all posted variables exist in the for() loop, you need to use an existance check before accessing the elements.

$index = "player" . $i;
if (isset($_POST[$index]))
{
    echo $_POST[$index], '<br>';
}

[Phil Gent]

Vielen danke Dormilich.

Ich habe mein Problem gelost.

Ich benotige nicht wenn Aussage, wahrend ich weiss, wieviele Variablen dort sind.

:-)

[Dormilich]

Ich benotige nicht wenn Aussage, wahrend ich weiss, wieviele Variablen dort sind.

this would imply that your script would only ever called from that page, which is not guaranteed.

[Phil Gent]

That is correct. I only need to run this on 1 page.

Thanks again for your help.