Help with PHP Development Issue

Hi,

I am currently developing a website for a football team, but I have run into a problem with development and cannot think of any ways to make it work.

I need to be able to add results for games, but their are 2 different squads in the club with different fixtures. At the moment when you select one of the squads, Ajax dynamically generates a drop down list of opponent fixtures for that squad. This then changes the text below and allows you to enter the goals scored for each team.

After you have entered 2 valid scores, a list of all the players in the club from a database of players. appears in a list below, which allows you to select via checkboxes if they played or not. A radio button for all players if they were the Man of the Match, and a drop down list for each player to indicate how many goals they scored in the game.

I need this so I can run statisitics on each player and create a top scorers table etc.

At the moment I am creating a list like so:-

Player Name (Drop Down List for Goals) (Checkbox if played) (Radio button if Man of the Match.)

My problem is, i dont know how to determine which player, which entry is for as the form fields are dynamically generated, and cannot be static.

At the moment I thought I would make the form name like: -

<input type="checkbox" name="played_'.$playedId.'" value="1" />

So if they played the name of the checkbox would indicate their number, and I would extract that using the explode functions from PHP to get the number or regex.

But I don't know how to return the name of a post variable :S

So I am stuck, and need a solution.... can anyone think of alternative way of me doing this? or give me some clues etc. All help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanks

 

You could have:

name="played[$playedId]"

which will create an array of $played, and then use a foreach loop and try to match it to a players ID? That is, if I have understood your problem correctly.

 

or you could loop throught your $_POST using foreach ($_POST as $field=>$value) { ... }
Each iteration will be a differnt $field and its corresponding value

Reminder, of checkbox is NOT checked.. value does not get passed at ALL! to solve that problem i have done