Posted by joboils on 06/15/07 08:03

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:38:10 -0700, Gleep <Gleep@Gleep.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:42:36 +0200, Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>>.oO(joboils@hotmail.com)
>>
>>>Hope some of the gurus around here can help me stop feeling stupid.
>>>Is there some way to have the same actions (like, say, STR_REPLACE(),
>>>TRIM() or STRTOUPPER(), and stuff like that) operate on all the
>>>variables passed by POST from a range of web forms without writing
>>>these actions specifically for each form's variables?
>>
>>foreach?
>>
>>Micha
>
>
>yup, treat $_POST as you would an array because it is an array
>
>example
>foreach($_POST as $key => $item)
>{
>$$key = trim($_POST[$key]);
>}
>
>key is a variable variable
>
>it would be the equivalent of this
>
>$apple = $_POST['apple'];
>$orange = $_POST['orange'];
>$pear = $_POST['pear'];
>
>etc..
>
>with the loop above you don't have to go thru the process of calling each one out
>it's done throu the loop - hope that makes sense
>

Thank you. I've never worked with foreach (Shock! Horror!) so it'll
be interesting to see how I get along with it.

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