I have a form which asks for employment history, where you have applied to college etc. So for example for colleges they applied to I have one text box at first and there is a button below that calls a javascript function to add another text input right below it. When I first made this form I was doing that with a few different pieces of data then once they were submitted I would get them from $_POST
and put them in arrays then add each element of the array to the corresponding table in my db. All of a sudden though, I can no longer submit my form and I get a message telling me that I have tried to get an unspecified index. However when i inspect the text inputs in my browser they are correctly named. I read that I should name them college[]
so that they all go into an array, but that also did not work.... now what?
js:
var numcol = 1;
function addnewschool(){
numcol++;
var container = document.getElementById("collegecontainer");
container.appendChild(document.createTextNode(numcol));
var input = document.createElement("input");
input.type = "text";
input.name = 'applied'+numcol;
container.appendChild(input);
container.appendChild(document.createElement("br"));}
html:
<p class="text-dark mb-4">List the Colleges you have applied to:<br>
<div id="collegecontainer" name="collegecontainer">
<input type="text" name='applied1'><br>
</div>
<input type="button" id="addcollege" name="addcollege" value="Add College"
onClick="addnewschool()"><br>
</p>
php:
$applied = array();
foreach($_POST['applied'] as $value){
array_push($applied, $value);
}
Update: Ok so I changed it to another way and that didn't work so i decided to just copy an earlier version of it which was working and paste it into the correct layout. And that worked... SO now that it was fixed i continued adding to it. I added "required" to a few tags, changed some styling a bit, and changed my javascript file a bit. But now I'm having the same issues as before. All of my POST arrays only have the first value in them. What could I have added that changed this? Has anyone ever had any issues like this?
Your first additional input should have index "applied1", not "applied2"
look at:
var numcol = 1; // put this to 0
function addnewschool(){
numcol++; // or move this to the end of the function
Name your text input field(s) applied[]
and when you process the form the post value of $_POST['applied']
will be an array already filled for you with however many entries were completed.
To get the data into your table:
foreach ($_POST['applied'] as $id => $applied) {
$sql = "INSERT INTO Colleges(id, college) VALUES('$id','$applied')";
if($conn2->query($sql) === TRUE){
echo "New Record created successfully";
} else {
echo "Error: " . $sql . "<br>" . $conn2->error;
}
} // end of foreach
You don't need to add a different name for each input. Just use applied[]
in all input names.
To get the array in PHP, just use $_POST['applied']
.
If you want to use each of them later, you could use a foreach
, like
foreach ($_POST['applied'] as $value) {
// Do what you want. Retrieve the value using $value
}
Or any other method you prefer.