How do I loop inside of varibale names?
 

I have some posts variables that would be like this
$_POST[name1]
$_POST[name2]
$_POST[name3]
$_POST[name4]
$_POST[name5]
$_POST[name6]
$_POST[name7]
$_POST[name8]
$_POST[name9]

I want to loop through them. I will alays know how many there will be. I was trying to do something like
$_POST[name$i]
then increment through. But that won't work. What do I need to do?

$_POST[name$i] won't work.. try this way: $_POST['name'.$i]

$sql = "UPDATE user SET username = \"$_POST['username'.$i]\", access = \"$_POST['access'.$i]\", owner= \"$_POST['owner'.$i]\" WHERE id= \"$_POST['userid'.$i]\"";

I tried that and got this error Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING the error is on that line for sure

Change to:

You need to escape the input first to avoid SQL injections.

on a side note... at the very LEAST you should be running them through addslahes() if not $db->escape_string() (which is better).

Otherwise you have a gargantuan security hole there.

Your best bet is something like this (assuming its vb integrated)

However if I understand what youre trying to do, I would suggest posting the variables like this:

Then do this to catch and cleanse:

Thats just off the cuff, so dont quote me on that... just trying to help :D

Ya, Iw ould have done this differently if I was doing it from the beginning. But I am finishing something someone else started. I figured it out withyour guys help. Thanks