I have a large amount of input fields. How can I pass the values into an array so I can pass the array from one page to another? example:
<input type="text" value=<?php $arry = "compName" ?> placeholder="Company Name" />
Is this legal? How can I do this properly?
EDIT:
In my page, I have "add" and "delete" buttons that will add/delete more input fields. I also have a "preview" button at the bottom. User will add/delete before hitting preview. Preview will collect all input and will call the next page. So the amount of field is unknown.
Here's what my code/markup looks like:
<div class="panel" style="width: 98%; margin:0 auto">
<div class="row">
<div class="large-6 columns">
Advertiser Info: <hr>
<input type="text" value="compName" placeholder="Company Name" />
<input type="text" value= "adEmail" placeholder="Email" />
<input type="text" value="adContName" placeholder="Contact Name" />
<input type="text" value="adPhone" placeholder="Phone # (NO DASHES)" />
<input type="text" value="adStreet" placeholder="Street Address" />
<input type="text" value="adCity" placeholder="City" />
<input type="text" value="adState" placeholder="State/Provice" />
<input type="text" value="adZip" placeholder="Zip/Postal Code" />
<input type="text" value="adCountry" placeholder="Country" />
</div>
<div class="large-6 columns">
Billing Info: <hr>
<input type="text" value="bEmail" placeholder="Email" />
<input type="text" value="bContName" placeholder="Contact Name" />
<input type="text" value="bPhone" placeholder="Phone # (NO DASHES)" />
<input type="text" value="bStreet" placeholder="Street Address" />
<input type="text" value="bCity" placeholder="City" />
<input type="text" value="bState" placeholder="State/Provice" />
<input type="text" value="bZip" placeholder="Zip/Postal Code" />
<input type="text" value="bCountry" placeholder="Country" />
</div>
</div>
</div>
So when the user hits add and EXACT copy of above code will be made.
With that said, I want to be able to use PHP arrays for html values to pass. How can I set my inputs so that I can do this?
You can do some tweaks like:
Using input type elements as array elements.
So that:
<input type="text" name="elem[name]" value="<?php echo $YOUR_VALUE;?>"
<input type="text" name="elem[class]" value="<?php echo $YOUR_VALUE;?>"
<input type="text" name="elem[marks]" value="<?php echo $YOUR_VALUE;?>"
So that the variables are you are posting should be less.
In this case, you are posting only one variable instead of three.
Use Jquery to get all the values of input fields and make a json object of {input_name:value} or array variable of key value and then pass it in argument.
var key_value = {};
$('input').each(function(){
key_value[$(this).attr('name')]= $(this).val();
})
alert(JSON.stringify(key_value));
Now you have an object with field name as key and its value.