In ASP you'd do this:


So how do you do it in PHP? I want to loop through a form, check to see if it has a value and if so, append to a string to send as the body of my email.

Not sure, but I think it can be done like this:



And add this somewhere:

if and else statements are all that is needed no looping functions.

ciroxyz, $HTTP_POST_VARS is generally considered 'obsolete' now. It may work (I think it may have been completely dropped from PHP 5x, but I don't know), but it's better to use the $_POST variable, in which all content submitted via the POST method is stored.

And truefusion, that will not work for a couple of reasons - for one, the $_POST variable is an array, and for two, an index not existing does not return FALSE in itself (although there are functions to reach this state, such as isset()). Further more, some input elements in a form - such as a radio button - will not register themselves at all when submitting the data if not selected - so simply checking whether or not they are empty will not work.

Anyway, Tyssen, here's a quick snippet that should work (will only check if entries are null):

I found this on another forum:


That works fine except that my output looks like this:

Name: My Name
Nameinitvalue: Name
Positioninitvalue: Position
Addressinitvalue: Address
Phone: 5555555555
Phoneinitvalue: Phone
Faxinitvalue: Fax
Email: myemail@email.com
Emailinitvalue: Email
Home_workinitvalue: Work
Comments: Test
Commentsinitvalue: Comments

The ones in italics are the actual fields that were filled in so all the others shouldn't be there (ie the ones with initvalue in the field name).
Anyone got any idea where they're coming from?

Tysson's way is better. which is

use array. come on.



This post has been edited by BuffaloHELP: Nov 3 2005, 10:11 AM

Tyssen, from what i see, i am thinking you used type="hidden" for the initvalues, but when you recall all $_POST from your form, it will also recall the hidden types, all types are recalled with an array, not just the ones you want

I either suggest doing it without an array and do it manually, or use php to make the form more viable while using an array

I am, however, unsure what you want to achieve with those initvalues, but i think (and i hope im right):


with something like that you can achieve to give the field an initial value, but, there is another way i was thinking of:
You just want a text-field (for example: name field) where the field is not empty initially, but states "name" and disappears once the user focusses on the text field, so it can type its own name, i think thats achieves similar to the following:

[code]
print "<input type=\"text\" value=\"Name\" name=\"username\" onFocus=\"if(this.value=='Name')this.value=''\">";
[code]

that provides a text field -> name insert
text that is in the textfield (not focussed on it) -> Name
when a user focusses on the text field, Name disappears and makes it an empty textfield, giving no trouble to the user

Hope that helps

Maybe this can help:

Extracting Text Field from Form using For Loop
Loop Through Form

Dear,

I am developing a form in which I want the data repeatedly. For example:


For ($x=0; $x > 3; $x++){
Exam Name <input name="ename[]" type="text" id="ename" />
# of Subjects <input name="totsubj[]" type="text" id="totsubj" />
}

I want to get the individual values once the form is submitted. The form uses method post and call another file where I get my variable through $_POST.

HELP PLEASEEEEEE

-question by Khabi Khan