Question

I have this previous post where I need to change my HTML form to accept an array. This post has the full details of the code.

So I changed all forms accordingly, such as:

<select name="camera_type[]">

But now I’m stuck on how to run the update query. Now that I store everything in an array I obviously can’t use my query as is. Here is a post that seems to be exactly what I need, but I’m not sure I understand: Update MySQL table with an Array using Foreach

Any further help on this is appreciated.

Answer 1

Use a foreach loop on the submitted value. Then you can iterate over the entire array and construct queries as you please.

For example: You have a $_POST[‘camera_type’] variable which is an submitted from the browser. In your php script do the following.

foreach($_POST['camera_type'] as $value) {
  //do your processing.
}