I'm having trouble getting POST value from dynamically generated txtinput[] and MultiSelect since they form an array. I read so many articles but I get confuse..
a short form of my code is given below..
Pls help me with best way how I can get array values in the form of a string "value1, value2, value3"
Regards... and Thanks..... below is my code
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
//initially hide the textbox
$("#other_lang").hide();
$('#lang').change(function() {
if($(this).find('option:selected').val() == "Other - specify"){
$("#other_lang").show();
}else{
$("#other_lang").hide();
}
});
$("#other_lang").keyup(function(ev){
var othersOption = $('#lang').find('option:selected');
if(othersOption.val() == "Other - specify")
{
ev.preventDefault();
//change the selected drop down text
$(othersOption).html($("#other_lang").val());
}
});
$('#form_id').submit(function() {
var othersOption = $('#lang').find('option:selected');
if(othersOption.val() == "Other - specify")
{
// replace select value with text field value
othersOption.val($("#other_lang").val());
}
});
});
var counter = 1;
var limit = 3;
var phonefields = "<input name='phoneno[]' id='phoneno[]' class='phoneno' type='text'/>";
function addInput(divName){
if (counter == limit) {
alert("Max. " + counter + " Phone numbers only");
}
else {
var newdiv = document.createElement('div');
newdiv.innerHTML = phonefields;
document.getElementById(divName).appendChild(newdiv);
counter++;
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form class="form" method="post" name="form" action="">
<label for="langs">Languages:</label><?php dyn_languages() ;?>
<input id="other_lang" name="other_lang" type="text" placeholder="Other lang" /><br /><br /><br />
<label for="phoneno[]">Phone No:</label>
<input id="buttonAsLink" type="button" onClick="addInput('dynamicInput')">
<div id="dynamicInput"><input name='phoneno[]' id='phoneno[]' type='text'/></div>
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<?php
//----Dynamic SelectBox for languages
function dyn_languages(){
$langs = array (1 => 'English', 'French', 'German', 'Russian', 'Spanish', 'Other - specify');
echo "<select size='6' name='lang' id='lang' multiple='multiple'>";
foreach ($langs as $value) {
echo (in_array($value,$_POST)) ? '<option value="'.$value.'" selected>'.$value.'</option>
' : '<option value="'.$value.'">'.$value.'</option>
';
} echo '</select>';
}//--END Function* --Dynamic SelectBox for languages
//--- POST Action
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$phoneno = $_POST['phoneno'];
$langs = $_POST['lang'].",".$_POST['other_lang'];
$sql = "INSERT INTO table(lang, phoneno) VALUES ('$phoneno','$langs')";
echo "<hr />".$sql;
}
//--- END POST Action
?>
</body>
</html>
If I understand correctly, you should try this
$phoneno = implode(', ',$_POST['phoneno']);
I managed to do it with
foreach ($_POST['phoneno'] as $ph) {$phoneno.= $ph.", ";}
foreach ($_POST['lang'] as $lng) {$langs.= $lng.", ";}