在具有变量ID的php中捕获POST数据

Question

I'm creating a form from a database and the input id's could be 1-9, 1,2,5,8, etc. IE with the way it is now, I cannot determine what the number will be unless I were to iterate from number 1 to the final number of menu items in the database... which I imagine is not optimal from a coding perspective.

I have two files. File1 will get list number of menu items from a database and create a list. The condensed version of my code is as follows, please keep in mind i have condensed a lot of useless stuff;

File1.php

    $menuArray = openMenu(1);
    $return = "<div id='menu'><form method='post' action='file2.php'><input type='submit' name='submit' value='Commit Order' /><table class='tableinfo'>";
    $i=1;
    foreach($menuArray as $recordNum => $record)
    {
            if ($record['available'] > 0)
            {
                    $thisClass='available';
            } else{
                    $thisClass='unavailable';
            }

            $return.="<tr class='$thisClass'>
                            <td>$record[itemid]</td>
                            <td><label for='$record[itemid]'>$record[name]</label></td>
                            <td><button type='button' id='itemid-$record[itemid]' class='subtract'>-</button><input class='itemadder' id='itemid-$record[itemid]' type='number' min='0' value='0' /><button id='itemid-$record[itemid]' class='addition' type='button'>+</button></td>
                    </tr>";
    }
    $return.="</table></form></div>";

    return $return;

File2.php I don't know how to code this :(

Is anyone able to shed some light on the best way to do this? I just need a way to be able to see what id's have a value when posted.

I am using jQuery at the moment; would this be something best done using jquery?

Answer 1

Assuming I understand you correctly the best way to do this would be to have an array of inputs.

Code you should try to achieve for your HTML output would need to be something like this:

<input type="text" name="number[1]" value="" />
<input type="text" name="number[3]" value="" />
<input type="text" name="number[5]" value="" />

Now you know after your form submission in PHP:

foreach($_POST['number'] as $id => $value){
    echo 'The value for ID #' . $id . ' is ' . $value; 
}