Posting array from form

Question

I have a form on my page with a bunch of inputs and some hidden fields  I ve been asked to pass this data through a  post array  only im unsure on how to do this    Heres a snippet of what im doing at the moment   lt form enctype  multipart form-data  action  process php  method  POST  gt       more inputs       lt  -- Hidden data -- gt   lt input type  hidden  name  TimeToRenderHoursInput  value   lt  php echo  RenderHours    gt     gt   lt input type  hidden  name  TimeToRenderDaysInput  value   lt  php echo  RenderDays    gt     gt   lt input type  hidden  name  TimeToRenderYearsInput  value   lt  php echo  RenderYears    gt     gt   lt input type  hidden  name  ContentMinutesInput  value   lt  php echo  ContentMinutes    gt     gt   lt input type  hidden  name  ContentMinutesSelector  value   lt  php echo  ContentMinutesSelector    gt     gt   lt input type  hidden  name  PriorityInput  value   lt  php echo  Priority    gt     gt   lt input type  hidden  name  AvgFrameRenderTimeInput  value   lt  php echo  AverageFrameRenderTime    gt     gt   lt input type  hidden  name  AvgFrameRenderTimeSelector  value   lt  php echo  AverageFrameRenderSelector    gt     gt   lt input type  hidden  name  CoresInTestInput  value   lt  php echo  CoresInTest    gt     gt   lt input type  hidden  name  EstPriceInput  value   lt  php echo  EstPrice    gt     gt   lt  -- End hidden -- gt    lt input type  image  src  http   www venndigital co uk testsite renderbutton  includes images button submit jpg  alt  Submit  value  Submit  style  border 0 important     gt    In my process php im then calling the data as such      first name     POST  first name      company name     POST  company name      email from     POST  email      address     POST  address      postcode     POST  postcode      RenderHours     POST  TimeToRenderHoursInput     RenderDays     POST  TimeToRenderDaysInput     RenderYears     POST  TimeToRenderYearsInput     ContentMinutes     POST  ContentMinutesInput     ContentMinutesSelector     POST  ContentMinutesSelector     Priority     POST  PriorityInput     AverageFrameRenderTime     POST  AvgFrameRenderTimeInput     AverageFrameRenderSelector     POST  AvgFrameRenderTimeSelector     CoresInTest     POST  CoresInTestInput     EstPrice     POST  EstPriceInput      Is there a way to post it as an array  Is my method bad practice in anyway

User · Answer

What you are doing is not necessarily bad practice but it does however require an extraordinary amount of typing. I would accomplish what you are trying to do like this.

foreach($_POST as $var => $val){
    $$var = $val;
}

This will take all the POST variables and put them in their own individual variables. So if you have a input field named email and the luser puts in [email protected] you will have a var named $email with a value of "[email protected]".

User · Answer

When you post that data  it is stored as an array in   POST    You could optionally do something like     lt input name  arrayname item1   gt   lt input name  arrayname item2   gt   lt input name  arrayname item3   gt    Then    item1     POST  arrayname    item1     item2     POST  arrayname    item2     item3     POST  arrayname    item3      But I fail to see the point

User · Answer

You re already doing that  as a matter of fact   When the form is submitted  the data is passed through a post array    POST   Your process php is receiving that array and redistributing its values as individual variables

User · Answer

Give each input a name in array format    lt input type  hidden  name  data EstPriceInput   value      gt    Then the in PHP   POST  data    will be an array     print r   POST              print out the whole post   print r   POST  data        print out only the data array

User · Answer

If you want everything in your post to be as  Variables you can use something like this    foreach   POST as  key   gt   value         eval        key            value

User · Answer

Why are you sending it through a post if you already have it on the server  PHP  side   Why not just save the array to the   SESSION variable so you can use it when the form gets submitted  that might make it more  secure  since then the client cannot change the variables by editing the source    It will depend upon how you really want to do

User · Answer

You can use the built-in function   extract   POST     it will create a variable for each entry in   POST

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