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.]

Re: Another "loop&quot ; question...


"fartsniff" <fart@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 ;)
>
>[/color]

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

$item_name=$_PO ST;

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_nam e1 = $item_name[item_name1]");

or

$whatever=$item _name['item_name1'];

(note the single quotes)

Will that work?

[fartsniff]

Re: Another &quot;loop&quot ; question...

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." <you.can.email. me.at.randelld@ yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> "fartsniff" <fart@sniff.com > wrote in message
> news:vgcqud1fnp bdf5@corp.super news.com...[color=green]
> > I swear, these loops and for each's are going to kill me (if regex[/color][/color]
doesn't[color=blue][color=green]
> > first ;)
> >
> > anyways, this is what i have:
> >
> > if ($_POST['item_name1'] != "")
> > {
> > @$item_name1 = $_POST['item_name1'];
> > @$item_number1 = $_POST['item_number1'];
> > }
> >
> > i am trying to come up with the best way (i.e. for each or something) to
> > process these.
> > basically, item_name can be anything from item_name1 to item_name99,
> > and i surely dont want to have a bunch of copy/pastes 99 times (or more,
> > the number depends on how much someone buys from me ;)
> >
> >[/color]
>
> Why assign 99 values to 99 different variables when you could assign the
> values to an array... one possible solution could be
>
> foreach($_POST as $key=>$value)
> {
> $item_name[$key]="$value";
> }
>
> or perhaps better still
>
> $item_name=$_PO ST;
>
> Thus, if you have a form field named item_name1 which has a value[/color]
"randell"[color=blue]
> then you can print this element of the array like so:
>
> print("item_nam e1 = $item_name[item_name1]");
>
> or
>
> $whatever=$item _name['item_name1'];
>
> (note the single quotes)
>
> Will that work?
>
>
>[/color]