KyZu Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 I'm just trying to incorporate some of what I've learned into practice and I can't believe I'm having problems with this but I really want to figure it out. I'm trying to create a simple program where a user enters the name of a song, and gives it a rating (out of 5), and it displays the output first by song rating then (if the ratings are the same) displays it by the name of the song alphabetically. The idea in practice would work like this...user enters: Song Name: My Song Rating: 3 Song Name: His Song Rating: 5 Song Name: Her Song Rating: 5 Your list so far is: Her Song - 5 stars His Song - 5 stars My Song - 3 stars I just keep undoing things and clearly I'm not getting it. I had many ideas making it so I'll show you what I wrote (which isn't much): http://pastebin.com/2AGqgxQd It looks terrible I know, I was just trying to find out how to put things from the form INTO an array and trying to output the array as I described above. If I could figure out how to use these session arrays to hold the entries from the post, then I'd be able to sort them properly, I'm just lost right now because everything I've read online and tried wasn't fixing the problem. Thank you so much for the help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zer0day Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 You were setting the sessions to a blank array every time the form was processed here: $_SESSION['songlist'] = array(); $_SESSION['songrating'] = array(); This should work: <?php session_start(); ?> <html> <head> <title>Song List</title> </head> <body> <form action="song.php" method="POST"> Song: <input type="text" name="song" /> Rating: <select name="rating"> <?php foreach (range(5, 1) as $number) { echo "<option value=\"$number\">$number</option>"; } echo "</select>"; ?> <input type="submit" value="Submit!" /> </form> <?php if (isset($_POST['song']) && isset($_POST['rating'])) { $song = $_POST['song']; $rating = $_POST['rating']; if(!is_array($_SESSION['songlist'])) $_SESSION['songlist'] = array(); if(!is_array($_SESSION['songrating'])) $_SESSION['songrating'] = array(); $_SESSION['songlist'][] = $song; $_SESSION['songrating'][] = $song; echo "Your song " . $song . " is rated " . $rating . " stars!"; } print_r($_SESSION['songlist']); echo "<br /><br />"; print_r($_SESSION['songrating']); ?> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuickOldCar Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 The session['rating'] was set to song in the above code, I fixed that, made the array a single combined and delimiter of | and added a little more to it. If you really wanted to you can create a new array, use natsort() to show highest rated songs. <?php session_start(); ?> <html> <head> <title>Song List</title> </head> <body> <form action="" method="POST"> Song: <input type="text" name="song" /> Rating: <select name="rating"> <?php foreach (range(5, 1) as $number) { echo "<option value=\"$number\">$number</option>"; } echo "</select>"; ?> <input type="submit" value="Submit!" /> </form> <?php if (isset($_POST['song']) && isset($_POST['rating'])) { $song = $_POST['song']; $rating = $_POST['rating']; if(!is_array($_SESSION['songlist'])) $_SESSION['songlist'] = array(); $_SESSION['songlist'][] = "$song|$rating";//switch to $rating|$song if using natsort() echo "Your song " . $song . " is rated " . $rating . " stars!"; } echo "<br /><br />"; print_r($_SESSION['songlist']); echo "<br /><br />"; $song_number = -1; foreach($_SESSION['songlist'] as $song_values){ $song_number = $song_number +1; $song_array = explode("|",$_SESSION['songlist'][$song_number]); $show_song = $song_array[0]; $show_rating = $song_array[1]; echo $song_number.": ".$show_song. "-" .$show_rating."<br />"; } ?> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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