Efficiently & safely (re)filling array from $_POST

[Raptor]

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=>s omeValue
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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"I'm not proud. We really haven't done everything we could to protect
our customers. Our products just aren't engineered for security."
--Microsoft VP in charge of Windows OS Development, Brian Valentine.

[Raptor]

Re: Efficiently &amp; safely (re)filling array from $_POST

Raptor wrote:[color=blue]
> After doing a quick google search, I tried:
>
> for ($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++)
> {
> $name = 'index'.$i;
> $array[$i] = $_POST["$name"];
> }[/color]

Never mind, figured it out. Take out the "" and and you can pull any
value out of $_POST using the posted name.

--
--
Lynn Wallace http://www.xmission.com/~lawall
"I'm not proud. We really haven't done everything we could to protect
our customers. Our products just aren't engineered for security."
--Microsoft VP in charge of Windows OS Development, Brian Valentine.