PHP - Form Multiple Input Name

I have a textarea feild in my form where the user can type in several keywords such as

Textarea Box Below

Cars
Trains
Buses

I have a database with the meanings of the words entered and want to be able to get the three definitions from the database on for submission.

In a normal input box where i only type one word i can grab no problem like so

$word = $_POST['word'];
$sql = "SELECT meaning FROM table WHERE word='$word'";

Though i am trying to get multiple values from the same textarea box

So if a user types in 3 words the query would query the database on thoses three words, the problem is i dont know how to get the diffrent words from the form

for example

$first = $_POST['word']; which would be the first word
$sec = $_POST['word']; which would be the second word etc.

Any help here would be great thanks.

Hey all,

I am building a simple cms. I have a posts table and I have an images table. A post has many images and images has a foreign key to the posts table. So when a user edits, updates, creates, and deletes a post, they affect the images related to the post. Sometimes a post can have more than one image, like three images. Hence I rendered this in the view (note that I am using a datamapper that converts tables to objects and fields to key/value pairs):

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foreach($records as $post){
echo form_open_multipart("homes/update/$post->id"); //File uploads require a multipart form. Default form handling uses the application/x-www-form-urlencoded content type. Multipart forms use the multipart/form-data encoding. //this is critical to pass the id as part of the action attribute of the form, so we can use our params hash to target the id to update the specific record
 
  echo label('Update Title');
echo form_input('title',$post->title);
echo label('Update Body');
echo form_textarea('body',$post->body);

  $images = $post->images->include_join_fields()->get();
if(!is_null($images->image_file_name)){ 
  echo label('Update Images');
foreach($images as $image){
echo form_upload('image_file_name',$image->image_file_name); 
}
}

}
echo form_submit('submit','Update');
The above line of code will render a few input file types. The problem occurs during posting to my update method. It is looking for one parameter from the input file field and so if I upload three different images, it will only look for one and write only one to database:

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$field_name = 'image_file_name';
  if ( ! $this->upload->do_upload($field_name)){
  $error = array('error' => $this->upload->display_errors());
echo $error['error'];
// redirect('homes/edit');
  }
else {
  $data = array('upload_data' => $this->upload->data());
$image_file_name = $data['upload_data']['file_name'];

Is it possible to do wht I am trying to do? Should I only have on input file type per form submission or is that I need to fix the code to accomodate for multiple submissions by creating an array of sorts?

Thanks for response.

Long time lurker, first time poster here.  I am having a problem with a multiple file uploader form I am trying to build.  I am using the CodeIgniter framework, but I believe my problem is with the form itself.

Here is the form:
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<form action="http://localhost/show/submit" id="sendfiles" method="post" name="sendfiles" enctype="multipart/form-data">   
<input type="hidden" name="doup" value="1" />
    <input type="file" name="userfile1" value="" id="userfile1" size="20"  />    <br />
    <input type="file" name="userfile2" value="" id="userfile2" size="20"  />    <br />
    <input type="file" name="userfile3" value="" id="userfile3" size="20"  />    <br />
    <input type="submit" name="submit_btn" value="Upload"  />    </form>   
   

The form is being passed to this function:


if(empty($_POST['doup'])){
            foreach($_REQUEST as $k => $v)
                print ">>> $k : $v <br />";
                
            $data['form_open'] = form_open_multipart(uri_string(), array(
                'id' => 'sendfiles',
                'method' => 'post',
                'name' => 'sendfiles'    
            ));
            $data['form_flag'] = form_hidden('doup', '1');
            $data['file1'] = form_input(array(
                'id' => 'userfile1',
                'name' => 'userfile1',
                'size' => '20',
                'type' => 'file',                
            ));
            $data['file2'] = form_input(array(
                'id' => 'userfile2',
                'name' => 'userfile2',
                'size' => '20',
                'type' => 'file',                
            ));
            $data['file3'] = form_input(array(
                'id' => 'userfile3',
                'name' => 'userfile3',
                'size' => '20',
                'type' => 'file',                
            ));
            $data['form_submit'] = form_submit('submit_btn', 'Upload');
            $data['form_close'] = form_close();           
            $this->load->view('show/submit', $data);
        } else {
            $config['allowed_types'] = 'mp3';
            $config['max_size']    = '10240';
            $config['upload_path'] = $this->config->item('file_upload_path');
            $uploaded_files = array();
            for($nona=1; $nona<4; $nona++){
                if (strlen($_FILES['userfile'.$nona]['tmp_name']) <=0){
                    echo  "tempname$nona failed";
                    continue;
                }
                
                    
                //print "------ USERFILE $nona ------ <br />";
                //print sizeof($_FILES['userfile'.$nona])."<br />";
                //foreach ($_FILES['userfile'.$nona] as $k => $v){                    
                //    print "$k  :  $v <br />";
                //}
                        
                $this->upload->initialize($config);
                $upload = $this->upload->do_upload('userfile'.$nona);
                if (!$upload){
                    $form_errors = array('form_errors' => $this->upload->display_errors());
                    $this->load->view('show/submit', $form_errors);
                    break;
                } else {
                    $data = array('upload_data' => $this->upload->data());
                    $data = $data['upload_data'];
                    $fp = $data['full_path'];
                    $filename = strtolower(random_string('numeric', 16) . $data['file_ext']);
                    $rel_path = 'show/submissons/uploaded/';
                    $path = $this->config->item('media_root_path') . $rel_path;
                    
                    exec('mkdir -p ' . $path , $a1, $r1);
                    exec('mv ' . $fp . ' ' . $path .  $filename, $a2, $r2);
                    
                    array_push($uploaded_files, $path .  $filename);
                }
                
            }
            $this->session->set_flashdata('img_data',implode("||", $uploaded_files));
           // redirect("show/submit_info");
        }    



The problem is this:

When I choose only one file to upload, it works.  I can choose any of the 3 inputs and it works great.  But as soon as I try to choose 2 or more files, the form fails to post.  When I press submit, the page simply reloads and none of the form variables get posted.  I have checked settings in php.ini and tried building and rebuilding this form.  I'm hoping someone here can provide some insight into what I'm doing wrong?

First, Happy X-Mas to all!


I want to do a form for entering dog-show results. On first site of form the user is able to enter how many dogs for each class (there are youth and open class for example) he want to insert. So on second site there will be formfields for every dog in every class, created with php. User should be able to take dogname from jquery autocomplete - this works for multiple fields. But i need the according id to the dogname - and actual only one id is given - the first one is changing by choosing from autocomplete in next fields...

Data came from a json array like

0: {dogidindatabase: "9892", value: "Excalibur Khali des Gardiens de la Cour ",…}
dogidindatabase: "9892"
label: "<img src='../main/img/female.png' height='20'>Excalibur Khali des Gardiens de la Cour   "
value: "Excalibur Khali des Gardiens de la Cour   "
1: {dogidindatabase: "15942", value: "Excalibur from Bandit's World Kalli",…}
dogidindatabase: "15942"
label: "<img src='../main/img/male.png' height='20'>Excalibur from Bandit's World   Kalli"
value: "Excalibur from Bandit's World   Kalli"

all i need is inside ...


the script in form is

<script type='text/javascript'>
		//<![CDATA[
		$(function() {
		
				$(".dog").autocomplete({
				source: "xxx.php",
				minLength: 3,
				select: function(event, ui) {
					$('#dogidindatabase').val(ui.item.dogidindatabase);
					}
			});
			
			$["ui"]["autocomplete"].prototype["_renderItem"] = function( ul, item) {
				return $( "<li></li>" ) 
  				.data( "item.autocomplete", item )
  				.append( $( "<a></a>" ).html( item.label ) )
  				.appendTo( ul );
			};
	
		});
		//]]>
</script>

and the form looked like

<input type='text' name='dog' class='dog' value='".strip_tags(${'dogname' .($countbabymale+1)})."' size='35' data-required='true' /><br>
	
<input class='readonly' readonly='readonly' type='text' id='dogidindatabase' name='dogidindatabase' size='5'  />

I changed in script and form id='dogidindatabase' to class, but it doesn´t work.   Testsite is under http://www.wolfdog-d...how.php?lang=de (only german at first) - Insert a number (higher than 1) under baby 3-6 (first box, the others are not working for testing); submit to get to page 2; you see all post-variables (for testing). Try to insert a dogname in first input-field (choose "exc") and insert first one - the id is under dogname. In second dogname inputfield you can choose second dog - the id for the first one changes to id of seond one ....   How can i get both for every dog?

I have the form: