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AdrianV
AdrianV

Reputation: 109

loop through same variables in for loop

How can I loop through each of these variable within a for loop?

 $prod1 = $_POST['Option1']; //get input text
 $prod2 = $_POST['Option2']; //get input text
 $prod3 = $_POST['Option3']; //get input text
 $prod4 = $_POST['Option4']; //get input text
    
 for ($i=1; $i < 5; $i++) { 
     $prod = $prod . $i;
 }

when I echo $prod . $i inside the loop, I want it to display the variable value.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 136

Answers (2)

ADyson
ADyson

Reputation: 61849

You can loop through the $_POST variable - it's an array.

foreach ($_POST as $prod)
{
  echo $prod;
}

(Obviously if there are other values in the $_POST array then you would need to check the key name first before deciding to use it.)

N.B. We don't know the source of this data (is it a HTML form) but it might make more sense for them to be submitted inside a single array to begin with - so all of the values would be accessed through $_POST["options"] for example, and you'd just loop through that specific list.

Upvotes: 0

Metabolic
Metabolic

Reputation: 2904

You should be better off with storing your data in an array and then looping over the array:

 $products = [  
          $_POST['Option1'],
          $_POST['Option2'],
          $_POST['Option3'],
          $_POST['Option4']
  ];
    
 foreach ($products as $prod ) { 
     echo $prod;
 }

Alternatively, You can also iterate over the POST directly:

for ($i=1; $i < 5; $i++) { 
     echo $_POST['Option' . $i];
 }

Upvotes: 1

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