my _POST and array not working properly

[mike12255]

So ive created a forum that I got handling several different approvals. (it is used to approve or decline all submitted notes) it works fine and it even submits fine im at the part know where i process the information and do something with it, below is my form:

 

<form action="course_proccess.php?action=approve" method="post">
  <table align="left" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
    <tr>
      <td><b>Author</b></td>
      <td><b>File name</b></td>
      <td><b>Download</b></td>
      <td><b>Suggested catagory</b></td>
      <td><b>Select Catagory</b></td>
      <td>Approve</td>
    </tr>
    
      <td><input type="text " disabled="disabled" name="tr1_author" value="MikeH" </td>
      <td><input typee="text " disabled="disabled" name="tr1_name" value="A lot of my skills set back"</td>
      <td><a href= /uzEr%20Upl0ds/cache.zip > Download</a></td>
      <td>1001 Laws - Polceing </td>
      <td><select name="tr1_scatagory">
          <option value="1"> Intro To Law </option>
          <option value="2"> 1001 Laws - Police Foundations </option>
        </select></td>
      <td><select name = "tr1_approve">
          <option value = "1"> Yes</option>
          <option value = "2"> no</option>
        </select></td>
    </tr>
      <td><input type="text " disabled="disabled" name="tr2_author" value="MikeH" </td>
      <td><input typee="text " disabled="disabled" name="tr2_name" value="MM"</td>
      <td><a href= /uzEr%20Upl0ds/Michael Heintzman.doc > Download</a></td>
      <td>1001 Laws - Polceing </td>
      <td><select name="tr2_scatagory">
          <option value="1"> Intro To Law </option>
          <option value="2"> 1001 Laws - Police Foundations </option>
        </select></td>
      <td><select name = "tr2_approve">
          <option value = "1"> Yes</option>
          <option value = "2"> no</option>
        </select></td>
    </tr>
    <input type="hidden" name="rowCount" value="2">
    <tr>
      <td><input type="submit" name="sendData" value="send"/></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</form>

 

 

so what I do in my process file is I have a for loop for all of the "TR's" in the table and if it is approved I have an if statment and then I want to add db stuff my problem is my $_POST's are returning blank and I have no idea why. Can someone please assit me with this? (p.s i have debugged and it does get into the if approve == 1 statment.

 

if(isset($_GET['action'])){

if ($_GET['action'] == "approve"){

if(isset($_POST['sendData']))
{

	$dataArray = array();

	$row_count = $_POST['rowCount'];
	for($i=1;$i<$row_count;$i++)
		{

			$approven = "tr".$i."_approve";
			$approve = $_POST[$approven];

			if($approve == 1)
				{
					//Move the info over to "approved files" and delete it out of newnotes
					$author = "tr".$i."_author";
					$location = "tr".$i."_location";
					$catagory ="tr".$i."_scatagory";
					$filename = "tr".$i."_name";
					$submitedby = $_POST['author'];
					die($submitedby);

					$dataArray[]=array('author'=>$author,'fileName'=>$fileName,'Catagory'=>$catagory,'location'=>$location);
					var_dump($dataArray);

				}else{
					//Email user saying they did not recive credits AND delete the entry

}
		}

	if(!empty($dataArray))
		{
			//now do what you want with the dataArray...	
			var_dumb($dataArray);			
		}
}

}

 

[freelance84]

Your input for author and the one under are not ended

 

Also, my bad, but $author... etc, they are now the names of the post array keys. You need another step...

 

$author = "tr".$i."_author";

$authorContent = $_POST[$author];

 

Also if you're not sure what has been posted, you can always check the post array with print_r:

print_r($_POST);

[mike12255]

Ok i fixed the form it now looks like this:

<form action="course_proccess.php?action=approve" method="post">
  <table align="left" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
    <tr>
      <td><b>Author</b></td>
      <td><b>File name</b></td>
      <td><b>Download</b></td>
      <td><b>Suggested catagory</b></td>
      <td><b>Select Catagory</b></td>
      <td>Approve</td>
    </tr>
    
      <td><input type="text " disabled="disabled" name="tr1_author" value="MikeH"></td>
      <td><input typee="text " disabled="disabled" name="tr1_name" value="A lot of my skills set back"></td>
      <td><a href= /uzEr%20Upl0ds/cache.zip > Download</a></td>
      <td>1001 Laws - Polceing </td>
      <td><select name="tr1_scatagory">
          <option value="1"> Intro To Law </option>
          <option value="2"> 1001 Laws - Police Foundations </option>
        </select></td>
      <td><select name = "tr1_approve">
          <option value = "1"> Yes</option>
          <option value = "2"> no</option>
        </select></td>
    </tr>
      <td><input type="text " disabled="disabled" name="tr2_author" value="MikeH"></td>
      <td><input typee="text " disabled="disabled" name="tr2_name" value="MM"></td>
      <td><a href= /uzEr%20Upl0ds/Michael Heintzman.doc > Download</a></td>
      <td>1001 Laws - Polceing </td>
      <td><select name="tr2_scatagory">
          <option value="1"> Intro To Law </option>
          <option value="2"> 1001 Laws - Police Foundations </option>
        </select></td>
      <td><select name = "tr2_approve">
          <option value = "1"> Yes</option>
          <option value = "2"> no</option>
        </select></td>
    </tr>
    <input type="hidden" name="rowCount" value="2">
    <tr>
      <td><input type="submit" name="sendData" value="send"/></td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</form>

 

however I printed the post and the name and filename location are not appearing this is what appears:

Array ( [tr1_scatagory] => 1 [tr1_approve] => 1 [tr2_scatagory] => 1 [tr2_approve] => 1 [rowCount] => 2 [sendData] => send )

 

here is the process code:

if(isset($_GET['action'])){

if ($_GET['action'] == "approve"){

if(isset($_POST['sendData']))
{

	$dataArray = array();

	$row_count = $_POST['rowCount'];
	for($i=1;$i<$row_count;$i++)
		{

			$approven = "tr".$i."_approve";
			$approve = $_POST[$approven];


			if($approve == 1)
				{
					//Move the info over to "approved files" and delete it out of newnotes
					$author = "tr".$i."_author";
					$location = "tr".$i."_location";
					$catagory ="tr".$i."_scatagory";
					$filename = "tr".$i."_name";
					$submitedby = $_POST['$author'];
					print_r($_POST);
					die("test");

					$dataArray[]=array('author'=>$author,'fileName'=>$fileName,'Catagory'=>$catagory,'location'=>$location);
					var_dump($dataArray);

				}else{
					//Email user saying they did not recive credits AND delete the entry

}
		}

	if(!empty($dataArray))
		{
			//now do what you want with the dataArray...	
			var_dumb($dataArray);			
		}
}

}

 

 

if you want to view the site its cnotes.ca although you need an admin acc to view the admin center so if u make one ill make it an admin

 

 

 

[freelance84]

<input type="text " disabled="disabled" name="tr1_author" value="MikeH">

 

should be:

<input type="text " disabled="disabled" name="tr1_author" value="MikeH"/>

[freelance84]

sorry, its not disabled you want.

 

It should read:

<input type="text " name="tr1_author" value="MikeH" readonly/>

 

same for the rest

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Your tr1_name, tr2_name fields are not working because you misspelled type. You have typee

 

You don't have any form fields named tr1_location and tr2_location, so it will be a little hard to get any values for those two fields.

 

And you should use arrays for your form fields, instead of the sequentially numbered - tr1_..., tr2_... Your code will be much simpler. See this link - http://us3.php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php#faq.html.arrays Once you do this, you can simply use php array functions, such as foreach(), to iterate over the arrays. You won't even need the rowCount value any more.