Posted by Merlin on 03/31/05 14:14

Ken wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:45:04 +0200, Merlin <news.groups@web.de> wrote:
>
>>Hi there,
>>
>>I am facing a problem in getting all values from a form.
>>There are loads of input check boxes in there which are named:
>>x_1, x_2 etc.
>>
>>Now I want to get that post data into an array.
>>
>>Somehow like this:
>>for ...{
>> $interests[] = $_POST[x_1];
>>}
>>
>>The problem is that the script does not know how many x there are and it does
>>not know the number. So how to get them all?
>>
>>Has anybody an idea, I am lost on that one.
>>
>>Thanx for any hints,
>>
>>Merlin
>>
>>PS: I know that there is another way in passing the checkbox values, but due to
>>some JS reasons I do have to go that way.
>
>
> check the php manual for the function foreach
>
> foreach($_POST as $value)
> {
> $interests[] = $value;
> }
>
> hth, sorry for the first mail i screwed up :D
>
> ken

Thanx ken,


This did the job:

foreach($_POST as $key){
if (substr($key,0,2) == 'n_')
$interests[] = substr($key,2);
}

Regards, merlin

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