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Michael Smith
Michael Smith

Reputation: 665

PHP Process Dynamic Form

I am creating a form for my workplace that will enter product serial numbers into a mySQL database.

You can see current working example here: http://jsfiddle.net/bELWq/

My issue at the moment is processing this form, at the moment I have a php script that simply echoes all of the information that is entered:

<?php
    $supplier = $_POST['supplier'];
    $date_inv = $_POST['date-inv'];
    $date_rec = $_POST['date'];
    $user = $_POST['user'];
    $product = $_POST['product'];
    $qty = $_POST['qty'];
    $serial = $_POST['serial'];

    foreach ($product as $p) {
        echo "$p<br />";
}    

    foreach ($qty as $q) {
        echo "$q<br />";
}

    foreach ($serial as $s) {
        echo "$s<br />";
}

    echo $supplier;
    echo $date_inv;
    echo $user;
    echo $date_rec;
?>

But the problem is that it echoes every product then all the qty's then all the serial numbers with nothing really to differentiate what belongs where.

Now i have racked my brain continuously over how to do this, and as i am not the most logically minded person it is starting to make my brain hurt.

Any suggestions on how to process this are greatly appreciated. Or if you can think of a better method to send the information, that would be good also.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 827

Answers (2)

Andy Gee
Andy Gee

Reputation: 3335

You could add the data to a table like so.

<?
echo '<table>
    <tr>
        <th>Product</th>
        <th>Quantity</th>
        <th>Serials</th>
    </tr>';

foreach ($product as $i => $p) {
    $serial_cell = array();
    foreach($serial[$i] as $si => $sv){
        $serial_cell[] =$sv;
    }
    echo '
    <tr>
        <td>'.$product[$i].'</td>
        <td>'.$qty[$i].'</td>
        <td>'.implode('<br>',$serial_cell).'</td>
    </tr>';
}
echo '
    <tr>
        <td>Supplier:</td>
        <td colspan="2">'.$supplier.'</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Invoice Date:</td>
        <td colspan="2">'.$date_inv.'</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>User:</td>
        <td colspan="2">'.$user.'</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Date Received:</td>
        <td colspan="2">'.$date_rec.'</td>
    </tr>';
echo '</table>';

Upvotes: 1

Perry
Perry

Reputation: 11700

You could do something like this:

    foreach ($serial as $key => $s) {
    echo "$s<br />";
    echo $serial[$key];
    echo $qty[$key];
    }

Upvotes: 1

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