Question

I have a pretty basic page that shows every five minutes of the day (12:00, 12:05, 12:10, etc). Next to each time is a dropdown <select> with the numbers 1-9. The name of the <select> is the name of the time it corresponds to. The user selects one of the numbers, goes to the next, selects a number, etc. until they get to the bottom and hit submit.

In the database table, each time of the day has its own row, with another field for the number.

How can I submit this form and have it insert the number based on the time of day to the proper row? I can’t wrap my head around this for some reason. I don’t even need to do validation. This is not a live website.

Answer 1

I think the name of the select should be times[] and the value should be the time.

so in php you can loop through the times[] array and get the row that corresponds to its value. Then update the count accordingly.

<select name="times[]" multiple>
  <option value="19:00">1</option>
  <option value="19:05">2</option>
</select>

In php psuedo code

foreach ($_GET['times'] as time) {
  *sanatize
  select row where time = time
  update count
}