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I have a select drop down list of languages and I'm intrested of putting each element of the array in diffrent variable. For you understanding my question I will put here a code:
<html dir="ltl">
<?php
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
$db=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","travelersdb");
mysqli_query($db,"SET NAMES 'utf8'");
?>
<head>
<link href="Styles/StyleEx.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
</head>
<script type="text/javascript">
var expanded = false;
function showCheckboxes() {
var checkboxes = document.getElementById("checkboxes");
if (!expanded) {
checkboxes.style.display = "block";
expanded = true;
} else {
checkboxes.style.display = "none";
expanded = false;
}
}
</script>
<body>
<tr>
<td>Languages</td>
<td dir="rtl">
<form method="post" action="exxx.php">
<div class="multiselect" dir="rtl">
<div class="selectBox" onclick="showCheckboxes()" dir="rtl">
<select>
<option>Choose language:</option>
</select>
<div class="overSelect" dir="rtl"></div>
</div>
<div id="checkboxes">
<label for="one">
<input type="checkbox" id="one" name="languages[]" value="English">English</label>
<label for="two">
<input type="checkbox" id="two" name="languages[]" value="German" >German</label>
<label for="three">
<input type="checkbox" id="three" name="languages[]" value="French">French</label>
<label for="four">
<input type="checkbox" id="four" name="languages[]" value="Spanish">Spanish</label>
<label for="five">
<input type="checkbox" id="five" name="languages[]" value="Italien">Italien</label>
</div>
</div>
<input type="submit" name="submit">
</form>
</td>
</tr>
<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
$languages = $_POST['languages'];
$language1 = $languages[0];
$language2 = $languages[1];
$language3 = $languages[2];
$language4 = $languages[3];
$language5 = $languages[4];
echo $language1;
echo $language2;
echo $language3;
echo $language4;
echo $language5;
}
?>
</body>
</html>
If I'm checking all the checkboxs there isn't a problem but if I'm checking less then 5 I will get this message:
Notice: Undefined offset:
This is beacuse of the array size. How can I avoid this and echo the variables if there were less than 5 languages checked?
</div>
you can try this, foreach loop is better way to show/process arrays
if(!empty($_POST['languages']){
$languages = $_POST['languages'];
foreach($languages as $lang){
echo $lang;
}
}
Use loop. Simplest one would be foreach.
<?php
foreach ($_POST['languages'] as $lang) {
echo $lang;
}
?>
since $_POST['languages'] is an array, you can loop through all of its elements. No matter how many are there. You even don't have to check if there are any elements at all, if there are none, foreach will be omitted.
You should loop through the languages and create a variable variable.
for($i = 0, $cnt = count($languages); $i < $cnt; $i++) {
$name = sprintf("language%d",$i+1);
${$name} = $languages[$i];
}
It will create $language1, $language2,.., but will create as many as the number of elements in the array(so it will create only 3 if 3 was checked)
Try this..
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
if(count($_POST['languages'])>0){
foreach($_POST['languages'] as $key=>$val){
echo $val;
}
}
}
You can use $$ to define a variable. check the live demo
Note you can access all the variable outside the foreach scope.
foreach($languages as $k => $v)
{
$name = 'language' . ($k + 1);
$$name = $v;
}
print_r($language1);
Using the advice from the answers above, I'd add the idea to use "variable variables" to allow you to name the individual variables from the $_POST array as they come in. To learn more about this technique, read the PHP documentation Also, be aware that there's an injection attack risk with this technique, so you need to have a way of checking that the elements from $_POST are what you're expecting.
The proper way of doing this is using extract function. First you need to store in array where keys will be the name of variable and values will be the values of variable.
<?php
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
$array=array();
foreach($languages as $key => $language)
{
$array["language".($key+1)]=$language;
}
extract($array);
echo $language1;
echo $language2;