Question

I am fairly new to php. I am trying to update the score everytime I loop over this array. my code only works if the first value of the listbox was selected by the user and it gives a zero if its not selected. please help.
This is A.php

{
    $SkillsArray = array();
    $Score=0;
    $SkillsArray = $_POST['DutiesDesc'];
    //foreach($SkillsArray as $key =>$value )
    {
        $Sentence = $SkillsArray[0]." ".$SkillsArray[1]." ".$SkillsArray[2]." ".$SkillsArray[3]." ".$SkillsArray[4]." ".$SkillsArray[5]." ".$SkillsArray[6]." ".$SkillsArray[7                              ]." ".$SkillsArray[8]." ".$SkillsArray[9]." ".$SkillsArray[10];
    }

        //Get the applicants score
        for($i=0;$i<11;$i++)
            {
                if ($SkillsArray[$i] == $Text[$i])
                    {
                        $Score = $Score+$Val[$i];
                    }
            }

} //**** The following is the HTML part of the code(form)
<form action = "A.php" method ="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<label for="Position">Position:</label><input type="type" name="Position" size="35" /><br />
                      </p>
                      <p>
                        <!-- <label for="DutiesDesc">Duties Description:&nbsp;</label><textarea name="DutiesDesc" cols="30" rows="5" /></textarea>--> <br />
                        Job Description
                        <select name="DutiesDesc[]" size=5 multiple="multiple">

                            <option value="<?php echo $Arow['TextF1']?>"><?php echo $Arow['TextF1']?></option>
                            <option value="<?php echo $Arow['TextF2']?>"><?php echo $Arow['TextF2']?></option>
                            <option value="<?php echo $Arow['TextF3']?>"><?php echo $Arow['TextF3']?></option>
                            <option value="<?php echo $Arow['TextF4']?>"><?php echo $Arow['TextF4']?></option>
                            <option value="<?php echo $Arow['TextF5']?>"><?php echo $Arow['TextF5']?></option>
                            <option value="<?php echo $Arow['TextF6']?>"><?php echo $Arow['TextF6']?></option>
                            <option value="<?php echo $Arow['TextF7']?>"><?php echo $Arow['TextF7']?></option>
                            <option value="<?php echo $Arow['TextF8']?>"><?php echo $Arow['TextF8']?></option>
                            <option value="<?php echo $Arow['TextF9']?>"><?php echo $Arow['TextF9']?></option>
                            <option value="<?php echo $Arow['TextF10']?>"><?php echo $Arow['TextF10']?></option>
                            <option value="<?php echo $Arow['TextF11']?>"><?php echo $Arow['TextF11']?></option>

                        </select><br />

Answer 1

The values in the array $SkillsArray do not have the same index as your $Text array. If you select the 3rd (lets say the value is “c”) and 5th (e.g. “e”) item in your list, the array $SkillsArray will contain the following:

$SkillsArray[0] = "c";
$SkillsArray[1] = "e";

So what you need is a simple search over your $SkillsArray, since you can’t rely on the indexes being conform with your $Text array.

if (is_array($SkillsArray)) {
  for($i = 0; $i < count($Text); $i++) {
    if (array_search($Text[$i], $SkillsArray) !== false) {
      $Score += $Val[$i];
    }
  }
}

Please do remember to check, if $SkillsArray is indeed an array. If the user doesn’t check any skills, the function array_search will return false for every item, which will result in the maximum score.

Documentation for functions: count, array_search, is_array
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