how to loop through POST variables and contents

[NotGiven]

I am looking for a standard way/function to loop through all POST variables
and their respective contents to update a database record.

Here's my ideal to pass a function and it update:
session variable - "ID" - that holds the record ID to update
$_POST or $HTTP_POST_VARS

The function would update the $_POST vaiables of the ID record with the
$_POST variable's contents.

Thanks for any help or links to info!

[CountScubula]

Re: how to loop through POST variables and contents

"NotGiven" <noname@nonegiv en.net> wrote in message
news:2U3Jb.5623 $kK.4315@bignew s3.bellsouth.ne t...[color=blue]
> I am looking for a standard way/function to loop through all POST[/color]
variables[color=blue]
> and their respective contents to update a database record.
>
> Here's my ideal to pass a function and it update:
> session variable - "ID" - that holds the record ID to update
> $_POST or $HTTP_POST_VARS
>
> The function would update the $_POST vaiables of the ID record with the
> $_POST variable's contents.
>
> Thanks for any help or links to info!
>
>[/color]

check out

http://gzen.myhq.info/postchk.php

and

http://gzen.myhq.info/snippetview.php?v=dumpvar.php

--
Mike Bradley
http://gzen.myhq.info -- free online php tools

[Daniel Tryba]

Re: how to loop through POST variables and contents

NotGiven <noname@nonegiv en.net> wrote:[color=blue]
> I am looking for a standard way/function to loop through all POST variables
> and their respective contents to update a database record.
>
> Here's my ideal to pass a function and it update:
> session variable - "ID" - that holds the record ID to update
> $_POST or $HTTP_POST_VARS
>
> The function would update the $_POST vaiables of the ID record with the
> $_POST variable's contents.[/color]

Use a foreach($_POST as $key => $value) block, inthere you can construct
2 strings, one containins the keys van one the (escaped) values
in the correct format for an insert statement (insert into $table
($keys) values ($values)).

One problem you are going to run into is the differenve between numeric
and string values in the talbe (you could fix that with a switch but
you'd have to know what is what in thew table).

--

Daniel Tryba