Question

I have a form with a few rows that I am trying to insert the values into the database. I am using jquery serialize to send the ajax post to the page. At this point, I am lost for how to send the values properly in an array so I can get the values. There are approx 10 rows with the same input id’s. Quantity, Price, Part Number. I send all ten to the php page. I need to retreive these ten rows and insert. Any help is appreciated. Here is the code.

<form id="form">
////These row repeat. Total of 10 
<input name="PartQuantity[]" type="text"  id="PartQuantity" size="2" /> 
<select name="PartType[]"  id="PartType">
<input name="PartNumber[]" type="text"  id="PartNumber" size="10" />
</form>

jquery

<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('.showResults').live('click', function() {

var post = $('#form').serialize(); 
jQuery.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "ajax/page_activity/forms/insert_parts.php",
        data: post,
        cache: false,
        success: function(html)
            {

            alert(html)

                }
        });
 });

 });
 </script>

php page

 <?php 
 $quantity_array = $_POST['PartQuantity'];
 foreach ($quantity_array as $quantity)
 {
 ///insert values
 }
 ?>

I can only print out the values for one of these arrays, not all of them.

Answer 1

$query = '';
for ($i = 0; $i < count($_POST['PartQuantity']);$i++){
  $query .= "(".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['PartQuantity'][$i]).",".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['PartType'][$i]).",".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['PartNumber'][$i])."),";
}
$query = substr($query,0,strlen($query) - 1); //STRIP LAST COMMA
$result = mysql_query("insert into <TABLE> (partquantity,parttype,partnumber) VALUES $query") or die(mysql_error());