I think in need loops

[chrispos]

Hi All,

 

and thanks for your help on my last problem now solved.

 

What i am doing is building a job site and it needs info put in from job seekers regarding their qualifications. Some will have 2 some may have 10 and so on. I need to set up a system that I can put say 10 text boxes in a form that can then go in a MySQL. I only want the filled out boxes to go into the database and not the ones left blank. I have no idea as to where to start with but I think I need to loop through until it comes to the last filled out box but not enter the blank text boxes. i have no idea where to start on this one so if any one has thoughts on this it would be great.

 

Thank you all for your help in the past.

[w1n78]

something like these?

http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-4689.html

 

or

 

http://viralpatel.net/blogs/2009/01/dynamic-add-textbox-input-button-radio-element-html-javascript.html

 

here's what i googled... http://www.google.com/search?q=javascript+dynamic+form+fields

 

then you can use a loop in php to do your insert

[chrispos]

Thank you its the loop I am after. The box link was great but it is getting the number of boxes then loop through then the insert and that is the bit I have no idea with. I hope that makes sense. I normally use

$something = $_POST['something']

 

But in this case I would not know how many boxes and what they were called.

 

[w1n78]

here's something to get you started.

<form method="post" action="some_page.php">
<input name="qualification[]" type="text" /><br />
<input name="qualification[]" type="text" /><br />
<input name="qualification[]" type="text" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" id="submit" name="submit" />
</form>

 

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
  for ($i=0; $i<count($_POST['qualification']); $i++) {
    if ($_POST['qualification']) {
      // insert into database
    }
  }
}

 

that's just a quick code off the top of my head. there may be syntax errors but i hope you get the idea. there are other ways but this is the "quick and dirty" way.