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Obviously I am complete Newb compared to you! could you give me an example of what you mean?! or what this might look like?

Dan, thanks for your help, but I have figured out the problem. On my connect file this was creating the problem : if(!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { $_POST = array_map('mysql_real_escape_string', $_POST); $_GET = array_map('mysql_real_escape_string', $_GET); $_COOKIE = array_map('mysql_real_escape_string', $_COOKIE); } else { $_GET = array_map('stripslashes', $_GET); $_POST = array_map('stripslashes', $_POST); $_COOKIE = array_map('stripslashes', $_COOKIE); $_GET = array_map('mysql_real_escape_string', $_GET); $_POST = array_map('mysql_real_escape_string', $_POST); $_COOKIE = array_map('mysql_real_escape_string', $_COOKIE); } so what i did was put an if(!defined('raw_input')){ } Around it, then defined the raw input on the page to cut this out, and it worked seemlessly. Just means I have to include addslashes() on each $_POST Cheers!

it comes out as : Array .... Lol, but apparently the is_array() test is failing... i dont get it!!

Hi Guys, I am new to this site, and I regret that I have been ploughing my way through php tutorials for about 6 years, and have had great success and never really though about actually just asking for help untill now!! I am having difficulty with a script I am trying to write, basically the script is to a form creator script, to create a questionair. So I set up a simple database, with a table to hold the questionaire name and ID, and a table to hold to questionaire questions, and a table to hold the answers, so now I need to write the script. Each questionaire will have different amounts of questions on it, so I have made a script to ask how many questions are required, and then output the correct number of textboxes to input the questions onto, as follows ; if(isset($_POST['continue'])){ $assess_name = $_POST['assess_name']; $company = $_POST['company']; $num_ques = $_POST['num_ques']; $num_questions = (int)$num_ques; $i = 1; echo "<form action='create_assessment.php' method='post'><table width='800' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0'> <tr><td colspan='2'>Assessment name : <b>$assess_name</b><input type='hidden' name='assess_name' value='$assess_name'></td></tr> <tr><td colspan='2'>Company Name : <b> $company</b><input type='hidden' name='company' value='$company'> "; while($i <= $num_questions){ echo "<tr><td>Question $i : </td><td><input type='text' name='ques[]'></td></tr>"; $i++; } echo "<tr><td colspan='2'><input type='submit' name='crt_assess' value='Create'></td></tr> </table></form>"; }else{ echo "<form action='new_assess.php' method='post'><table width='100%' cellpadding='0' border='0' cellspacing='0'> <tr><td>Assessment Name : </td><td><input type='text' name='assess_name'></td></tr> <tr><td>Company Name : </td><td><input type='text' name='company'></td></tr> <tr><td>Number of Questions : </td><td><input type='text' size='3' name='num_ques'></td></tr> <tr><td colspan='2'><input type='submit' name='continue' value='Continue'></td></tr> </table></form>"; } However, when processing the secondary form with the questions onto the next page, it doesnt seem to build the array for the "ques[]" textbox, i.e. it doesnt recognise it as an array. the next page code is as follows : if(isset($_POST['crt_assess'])){ include "../connect.php"; $assess_name = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['assess_name']); $company = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['company']); $add_assess = mysql_query("INSERT INTO assessments (name, company, timestamp)VALUES('$assess_name','$company','$timestamp')") or die(mysql_error()); $assess_id = mysql_insert_id(); echo "$assess_name Succeessfully added to database with the following questions : <br>"; if(is_array($_POST['ques'])){ foreach($_POST['ques'] AS $value){ $escape = mysql_real_escape_string($value); $add_ques = mysql_query("INSERT INTO assess_questions (question, assess_id)VALUES('$escape','$assess_id')") or die(mysql_error()); echo "$escape added successfully<br>"; } }else{ echo "error building array"; } }else{ echo "invalid page request."; } That script always returns the "error building array" string, so its proven that the $_POST['ques'] is not forming an array for each of the text boxes. Where am I going wrong? I have made a script like this before, but with checkboxes instead of textareas, and that script worked fine.... whats going on?!