form button in loop

[smeghead67]

Hi, This is my first post here. I hope I can explain this so you fine people can help me.

 

On my web page im building at home, I have it getting data from the mysql server and it displays it with no problems. I added a form button at the end of each table row. that will, my goal, direct a person to the page that displays the item info.

for ($i=1;$i<=6;$i++)
{
  $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
  extract($row);
  $f_price = number_format($msrp,2);
  $f_hb = number_format($high_bid,2);
  check_time_left($itemid);
  echo "<tr>\n
<td>$itemname</td>\n
        <td align='right'>\$$f_price</td>\n
        <td>$tlstring</td>\n
        <td align='right'>\$$f_hb</td>\n
        <td><form action='item.php' method='POST'>
        <input type='hidden' name='item_id' value='$itemid'>
        <input type='submit' value='view'></td>
        </tr>\n";
  echo "<tr><td colspan='5'><hr></td></tr>\n";
}
echo "</table>\n";

 

when i hit any button it always displays the info from the last item on my list? It does the same on another page with a while loop

 

any ideas?

 

Thank You

Smeghead67

[haku]

1) Please don't post PHP scripts in the HTML section. When you have an HTML question, the PHP is irrelevant. Post the output of your PHP script.

2) If you look at the HTML output of your script, it will probably quickly apparent to you why you are only seeing the value of the last item (hint: look at the 'name' attribute of two of the form elements from your loop).