I've been working on trying to write a function that will grab the POST values of any given form submission, pop them into an array, loop through the array using trim, addslashes etcetera pass that value back to a variable where it can then be passed to a database.
Now the hurdle I have atm is getting all the input,textarea,select element data into an array upon form submission. code I have follows
$fields = array($_POST['1'], $_POST['2']);
$i = 0;
foreach ($fields as $field) {
$i++;
${'field'.$i } = trim(addslashes(strip_tags($field)));
echo "POST field info #". $i ." - ". ${'field'.$i }."<br />";
}
As you can see everything is fine here baring that the POST value names are still being in-putted statically, what I need is a way to get that POST data fed into a loop which dynamically calls the POST name using an increment variable and then pop all that data into the same array. Code I have tried follows.
for ($ii=0;$ii++;) {
foreach($_POST['$ii'] as $field) {
$fields = array($field);
}
}
$i = 0;
foreach ($fields as $field) {
$i++;
${'field'.$i } = trim(addslashes(strip_tags($field)));
echo "POST field info #". $i ." - ". ${'field'.$i }."<br />";
}
Now I know this wont work but I can sense I am relatively close, so I am wondering if any clever person can help me sort the last part out? I sadly am now going to sleep and wont be viewing this post for at least 9 hours, apologies.
Thanks in advance.
Dan.