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I was going to use jQuery to clone the input field when I click a button to make another field, but I was thinking of doing:

Page One, Page Two, Page Three <- then send that as one $_POST to the server and have it take each page and break on the "," comma then for each insert in to my POSTS table.

Any idea on how I would do that? Would I use explode()? Then inside a foreach() run a query for each item in the field.

So if there were 5 pages typed in separated by commas, it would run five times using the foreach().

for each(){
  EXECUTE SQL HERE
}

Does that sound like it would be the best way of going about it?

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  • what are you trying to do? pagination? what are the buttons for? Commented Feb 16, 2009 at 12:47
  • Not for pagination, for I can type in: "About, Contact, Products" in to an input then insert EACH of those separated by comma and place them in my PAGES table, so run three different queries. Commented Feb 16, 2009 at 14:27

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If you set the name attribute of the input element to the name of an array, e.g. foo[], you'll be able to access it as such when processing the $_POST vars, e.g.

<input name="foo[]" type="text"/>
<input name="foo[]" type="text"/>

becomes two iterations of:

foreach ($_POST['foo'] as $foo) {
    // process $foo
}
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explode and foreach sound good.

But as Click Upvote indicated: is it for pagination? 'cause then there could be a betetr way to achieve this.

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You can do the following:

<input type="text" name="list[]" />
<input type="text" name="list[]" />
<input type="text" name="list[]" />
<input type="text" name="list[]" />

Everytime you need a new input box you can do 

$(some_element).append( '<input type="text" name="list[]" />' );

or sth similar with jQuery.

Then you have an array instead of a single value in your PHP $_GET or $_POST variable. So you can use $_POST['list'] in foreach.

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I was thinking, I can type in:

Home, Products, About, Contact

Into a input field, then my php can break it apart using the comma and insert each of those page titles in my PAGES table.

Run the SQL within the foreach.

Thoughts?

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