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Satch3000
Satch3000

Reputation: 49384

PHP Form Submit Loop

I have a form with a textarea.

The textarea has multiple words separate by a comma, see below...

<form method="post" action="send.php">
    <textarea>data1, data2, data3</textarea>
    <input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>

What I need to do is to create some kind of loop where the form gets submitted multiple times...

Each time is will send a different value from the textarea.

For example:

Start:

1. data1 .. Submit
2. data2 .. Submit
3. data3 .. Submit

End.

Is there a way to do this in php or php and javascript?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 589

Answers (3)

Steven Martin
Steven Martin

Reputation: 3272

Is there a reason why you want to submit multiple time?

The easy way to do this is to sumbit the entire textbox value and then have php spilt it up using "," as a delimiter and trim off the whitespace

<form method="post" action="send.php">
    <textarea name="textboxdata">data1, data2, data3</textarea>
    <input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>

<?php
    $textboxarray = array_map('trim',explode(",",$POST['textboxdata']));
?>

OUTPUT

Array
 ( 
    [0] => data1
    [1] => data2
    [2] => data3 

 )

Upvotes: -1

Nicky Smits
Nicky Smits

Reputation: 3138

Sure. get the reference of the textarea (can also be done by id if you wish).

var text = document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0].innerHTML
var separated = text.splt(',');
for(var a = 0 ; a < separated.length ; a++){
    //SENDREQUEST IS A FUNCTION YoU HAVE TO BUILD.
    sendRequest(separated[a].trim());
}

Upvotes: 1

SeanCannon
SeanCannon

Reputation: 77966

Pseudo code : 

$('#my-form').on('submit', function(e) {
    var $this = $(this),
        data = $this.find('textarea').text().split(',');

    data.forEach(function(item, index, array) {
        $.ajax({
            url : $this.attr('action'),
            data : item,
            type : $this.attr('method')
        });
    });
});

Upvotes: 1

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