Help with Form Post

[gple]

I am using 15 text areas for the user to put in 15 names. so we have user1, user2,....user15. How can I do this below:

$user1=$_POST['user1'];

$user2=$_POST['user2'];

$user3=$_POST['user3'];

$user4=$_POST['user4'];

$user5=$_POST['user5'];

$user6=$_POST['user6'];

 

to input the data in a table without actually having to type out 15 lines.

 

[tauchai83]

hehe. No so much shortcut here. 15 lines only is good. I'm not sure it is possible to make it less than 15 liens with shorter php code. But it doesn't matter as the most important is it pass the value and could be saved into DB. 

[fert]

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.extract.php

[tauchai83]

Warning

Do not use extract() on untrusted data, like user-input.......

 

 

qoute from php manual.

 

[chronister]

Try something like this. I cannot test it right now as my stupid testing server is not wanting to respond properly.

 

<?php

$x=1;

 

while($x < 16){

 

 

$user.$x=$_POST["user.$x"];

 

$x++;

}

?>

[per1os]

foreach ($_POST as $key => $val) {
     if (ereg($key, "user")) {
           $$key = $val;
     }
}

 

What the $$key does is if $key = user1 it sets the variable name to user1, IE: $user1 now contains $val.

 

--FrosT