Question

I’m relatively new to web-programming in general so my question may seem a little ridiculous but I’ve done a good amount of research and can’t seem to figure out an answer…

So I have a basic registration form that registers a competitor for a competition. The idea is that the school’s coach would go and register all of their competitors on the same page. I’d like for there to be a dropdown menu that an ordinal list of numbers and when a number is selected I’d like ‘n’ instances of the form to show up where ‘n’ is the number of competitors.

Is this possible? or should I just put 10 or so registration forms on the page and submit what is filled out? Thanks!

Answer 1

it is possible. you would simply put the number into a get variable in the links.

register.php?number_of_forms=1
register.php?number_of_forms=2
register.php?number_of_forms=3

when they click the link, your register.php page would loop that many times, creating that many forms.

for ($i = 0; $i <= $_GET['number_of_forms'], $i++) {
   // print form here

}