[SOLVED] Trouble with dynamic fields (newbie)

[blythy]

Hello, basically I have a form that allows the user to enter a number, and then on the next page that number is used to generate that amount of fields to enter image names.

This works so far, I'm name my field names using a for loop ie

[code]for($i=1; $i<=$numberOfFields; $i++)
{<input type=\"text\" name=\"addMorePics$i\" />}[/code]

So say the user chooses 3 fields, they'll be named addMorePics1, addMorePics2 and addMorePics3. In my next page I'm trying to add them into one variable that encloses each filename with img tags as such(note I'm using a hidden field to pass the number of fields):

[code]for($i=1; $i<=$numberOfFields; $i++)
{$morePics = morePics ."<img src=\"../images/"$_POST['addMorePics$i']" />";}[/code]

The idea is that say the values from the fields were picture1.jpg, picture2.jpg and picture3.jpg the variable when echo'd would produce the following html code:
[code]
<img src=""../images/picture1.jpg" /><img src=""../images/picture2.jpg" /><img src=""../images/picture3.jpg" />
[/code]

Obviously this is not working and I apologise for my ignorance in not knowing why or the correct way to do it, but I'm only just starting out with PHP. Any help would be greatly appreciated,
blythy

[fert]

the first page
[code]
<form method="post" action="next_page.php">
<input type="text" name="num_fields">
<input type="submit" value="Go">
</form>
[/code]
next_page.php
[code]
$num=$_POST['num_fields'];
for($count=1;$count<$num;$count++)
{
      echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"image{$count}\">";
}
[/code]

[blythy]

Sorry I musn't have made it very clear, forgive me it is 3am  :'(

I have the number of fields displaying properly, the problem then lies in using php to make use of these fields. In your example if I entered 3 in the first page, I will end up with three input fields named image1, image2 and image3 respectively. I am having trouble then in the page after using a loop to to assign the input of image1, image2 and image3 to a variable. I know my problem is that I'm trying to do it this way
[code]"$_POST['image$i']"[/code]
inside a for loop. I was hoping that while $i increments in my for loop, the "$_POST['image$i']" will increment also(ie "$_POST['image1]" then "$_POST['image2]"), but this seems not to be the case.

I'm sorry if this is no clearer

[fert]

[code]
for($i=1; $i<=$numberOfFields; $i++)
{
$name="addMorePics".$i;
$morePics.="<img src=\"../images/"{$_POST[$name]}" />";
}
[/code]

[blythy]

Didn't quite work with the curly brackets, so I took them out and bingo!

[code]
for($i=1; $i<=$numberOfFields; $i++)
{
$name="addMorePics".$i;
$morePics.="<img src=\"../images/{$_POST[$name]}\" />";
}
[/code]

Thankyou so much for your help!