betaone

well im VERY new to php and im starting small and hopefully going to end up with a cms; back to the question (i do realize that my coding will be very incorect but since im realy new to this , newer then you could possibly imagine bare with me) lets say i want the person that is submiting something to have the option to select the number of text forms they might need wouldent you go about this by creating a drop down calling it like name=numb[] then have lets say 8 variables (1-8 for the dropdown selection) they pick 4 and in the php code you would do <select name="numb[]"> <option value="1">1 <option value="2">2 <option value="3">3 <option value="4">4 <option value="5">5 <option value="6">6 <option value="7">7 <option value="8">8 </select> <form name="form1" method="post" action=""> <br> <br> Character Name:<br> <input name="name" type="text" size="30" maxlength="30"> <br> Character Biography<br> : <textarea cols=30 rows=10 name="bio"></textarea> <br> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"> <br> <br> <table width="33%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td> <?php $blah= $name=$_POST['name']; $bio=$_POST['bio']; if(isset($name) && isset($bio)){ echo $name. ": " .$bio; } ?> </td> </tr> </table> </form> <? $numb=count['numb[]']; $form=$_request['numb[]+form1'] if ($numb); then (show $numb of $form); echo then; } ?> PS: i also have little to no clue as to what i was trying to do in that little piece of code for the best thingi have done in php so far go look at www.addpower.com/betaone/test.php (the dropdown is usless rightnow just put in something in first line and a discription about it in second text box) i also dont have a clue what isset is that iused a friend said that was better to use then the if($submit) echo "$name:$bio" www.addpower.com/betaone/test.phps.txt for code