Ok so, I am building something for my employer for them to input products, they have very specific requirements. I have a form with dynamically generated fields like so... (obviously not the exact code to follow but the examples are identical conceptually)
<input type="text" name="attribute[20]"> inputted value = height
<input type="text" name="attribute[27]"> inputted value = width
the numbers are generated based on things in the database, so 20 would correlate to "width" 27 would correlate to "height" for example.
So once the user enters the values I need those values to go into a database...or in the test, echo out.
foreach ($_POST['attribute'] as $attributes){
echo key($attributes).' '.$attributes.'<br>';
}
So that should output...
20 height value<br>
27 width value
but instead it outputs
height value<br>
width value
What is going on? I have something similar...but slightly different as the defined numbers can have more than one input....which works perfectly.
<input type="text" name="option[][20]"> inputted value = option 1
<input type="text" name="option[][20]"> inputted value = option 2
<input type="text" name="option[][27]"> inputted value = option 1
foreach ($_POST['option'] as $options){
echo key($options).' ';
foreach ($options as $option){
echo $option.'<br>';
}
which outputs perfectly...
20 option 1<br>
20 option 2<br>
27 option 1
I don't understand why the more complex one works and the simpler one doesn't, am I missing something obvious? I am aware I have a somewhat unorthodox method of coding in comparison to some, but it is what it is lol. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Var dump as requested
array(22) { ["pID"]=> string(12) "test product" ["pPrice"]=> string(0) "" ["pName"]=> string(0) "" ["pRRP"]=> string(0) "" ["pPostSize"]=> string(0) "" ["pOurPrice"]=> string(0) "" ["pEstDelivery"]=> string(0) "" ["pWeight"]=> string(0) "" ["pEAN"]=> string(0) "" ["pOrder"]=> string(0) "" ["pStock"]=> string(0) "" ["pManufacturer"]=> string(0) "" ["pType"]=> string(13) "Shower Valves" ["pRange"]=> string(0) "" ["cat"]=> array(2) { [0]=> string(2) "72" [1]=> string(2) "23" } ["attribute"]=> array(2) { [0]=> string(5) "width" [1]=> string(6) "height" } ["option"]=> array(3) { [0]=> array(1) { [11]=> string(6) "works1" } [1]=> array(1) { [10]=> string(6) "works1" } [2]=> array(1) { [10]=> string(6) "works2" } } ["pLongdescription"]=> string(0) "" ["meta_description"]=> string(0) "" ["meta_keyword"]=> string(0) "" ["meta_title"]=> string(0) "" ["action"]=> string(6) "create" }
the bold parts, are the parts that successfully come out in my second example. but the bold italic as you can see, returns 0 instead of the 20 that is actually in the form name value.