Question

I asked a question on SO a few hours back.

How to insert an Array of field names from a form into SQL database in Codeigniter.

<tr>
<td><input type="text" name="user[0][name]" value=""></td>
<td><input type="text" name="user[0][address]" value=""><br></td>
<td><input type="text" name="user[0][age]" value=""></td>
<td><input type="text" name="user[0][email]" value=""></td>

<tr>
<td><input type="text" name="user[1][name]" value=""></td>
<td><input type="text" name="user[1][address]" value=""><br></td>
<td><input type="text" name="user[1][age]" value=""></td>
<td><input type="text" name="user[1][email]" value=""></td>
</tr>
..........//so on

This is the best answer I got

foreach($_POST['user'] as $user)
 {
    $this->db->insert('mytable', $user);
 }

Now I want to pass a id generated from user session data into this array + a few other values like current time

Is it possible to tweak the above solution?

The Previous Discussion Here

Answer 1

foreach($_POST['user'] as &$user)
 {
    $user['additional_data'] = $_SESSION['additional_data'];
    $user['current_time'] = time();
    $this->db->insert('mytable', $user);
 }

Note the & in &$user which is a pass by reference which allows manipulation of an array within a foreach loop. If you reference user later remember to unset($user) to remove the reference to the last element of the $_POST[‘user’] array.