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    <p>I'm after a little help. I have a page for a user to input upto 10 different rows of information. Dispatch details. I have created a page with my form using a loop.. </p> <pre><code>&lt;?php session_start(); require("config.php"); require("header.php"); $db = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpassword); mysql_select_db($dbdatabase, $db); ?&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/br&gt; &lt;form action="insertdispatch.php" method="post"&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;table&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ref&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;center&gt;Date&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;center&gt;Service&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;center&gt;Tracking&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;?php $index = 1; $name = 1; while($index &lt;= 10){ ?&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="transno&lt;?php echo $index;?&gt;" id="transno&lt;?php echo $index;?&gt;" /&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="date&lt;?php echo $index;?&gt;" id="date&lt;?php echo $index;?&gt; "/&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;select name = "service&lt;?php echo $index;?&gt;"&gt;&lt;?php $viewsql = "SELECT * FROM dispatch_service ORDER BY service ASC"; $viewresult = mysql_query($viewsql); while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($viewresult)){ ?&gt; &lt;option value=&lt;?php echo $row['service'] ;?&gt;&gt; &lt;?php echo $row['service'] ;?&gt;&lt;/option&gt; &lt;?php } echo "&lt;/select&gt;";?&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="text" name="tracking&lt;?php echo $index;?&gt;" id="tracking&lt;?php echo $index;?&gt;"/&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;?php $index ++; }?&gt; &lt;center&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;input type="submit" value="Add Product" /&gt; &lt;/form&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;center&gt;&lt;a href='javascript:history.back(1);'&gt;Back&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt;` </code></pre> <p>I have 10 of each text box, the name of the text box adds the value of index to the end. (with my limited coding experience I am very pleased with myself) so I go to the insertdispatch.php page and the plan is to insert each of these values into my table... now...I have no clue... and I cannot seem to figure out how I am going to do this...</p> <p>I think I will need to use a loop again.. but I can't seem to figure out how I am going to call each of the $_POST values. I don't really want to use 10 different insert statements, as the form may increase in size. here is what I have so far..</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php session_start(); require("config.php"); $db = mysql_connect("localhost","root",""); if (!$db) { do_error("Could not connect to the server"); } mysql_select_db("hbt",$db)or do_error("Could not connect to the database"); $index = 1; while($index &lt;= 10){ $insertsql = "INSERT into dispatch (trans_no, date, service, tracking) values ()"; mysql_query($insertsql); $index ++; } //header("Location: " . $config_basedir . "home.php"); ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>I am not looking for anyone to finish the coding for me, but any tips would be grateful! :)</p>
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