Question

My code below is supposed to display each question ($_POST[questionText]). For each question, it displays it’s SessionId, QuestionId, QuestionContent and OptionId. But instead it is only displaying 1 question. Why is it only displaying 1 question and how can I get it to display all of the questions?

I use an echo to text the output with the INSERT VALUES.

foreach($_POST['questionText'] as $i => $question)
{

      $insertquestion = array();


$options[] = $_POST['gridValues'];

switch ($options[$i]){

    case "3": 
    $selected_option = "A-C";
    break;

    case "4": 
    $selected_option = "A-D";
    break;

    default:
    $selected_option = "";
    break;

}      

$optionquery = "SELECT OptionId FROM Option_Table WHERE (OptionType = '". mysql_real_escape_string($selected_option)."')";

 $optionrs = mysql_query($optionquery);
 $optionrecord = mysql_fetch_array($optionrs);
 $optionid = $optionrecord['OptionId']; 


    $insertquestion[] = "'". mysql_real_escape_string($_SESSION['id'] ) . ($_SESSION['initial_count'] > 1 ? $_SESSION['sessionCount'] : '') ."' ,'". mysql_real_escape_string( $_POST['num_questions'] ) ."','".  mysql_real_escape_string( $question ) ."','".  mysql_real_escape_string( $optionid ) ."'";

    $questionsql = "INSERT INTO Question (SessionId, QuestionId, QuestionContent, OptionId) 
    VALUES (" . implode('), (', $insertquestion) . ")";

    $i++;

    }

echo($questionsql);

Below is the javascript code and form code. How it works is the user types in a question in the textarea ('name='questionText') and types in an option (name='gridValues') and then they append them two in a table row (table in the form which id='qandatbl'). This is the question 1. Then they do the same again for second question, then third and etc. Please look at this carefully, it is easy to follow.

<script>

    function insertQuestion(form) {   

    var context = $('#optionAndAnswer');

    var $tbody = $('#qandatbl > tbody'); 
    var $tr = $("<tr class='optionAndAnswer' align='center'></tr>");
    var $question = $("<td class='question'></td>");
    var $options = $("<td class='option'></td>");
    var $questionType = '';

    $('#questionTextArea').each( function() {

    var $this = $(this);
    var $questionText = $("<textarea class='textAreaQuestion'></textarea>").attr('name',$this.attr('name')+"[]")
                   .attr('value',$this.val())

    $question.append($questionText);

    });

    $('.gridTxt', context).each( function() {

     var $this = $(this);
     var $optionsText = $("<input type='text' class='gridTxtRow maxRow' />").attr('name',$this.attr('name'))
                     .attr('value',$this.val())

    $options.append($optionsText);
    $questionType = $this.val();

    });

    $tr.append($question);
    $tr.append($options);    
    $tbody.append($tr); 

    }

</script>

    <form id="QandA" action="insertQuestion.php" method="post" >

    <h1>SESSION (<?php echo $_SESSION['id'] ?>)</h1>

    <table>
    <tr>
        <td rowspan="3">Question:</td> 
        <td rowspan="3">
            <textarea id="questionTextArea" rows="5" cols="40" name="questionText"></textarea>
        </td>
    </tr>
    </table>

    <table id="optionAndAnswer" class="optionAndAnswer">
    <tr class="option">
    <td>Option Type:</td>
    <td>
    <div>
        <input type="text" name="gridValues" class="gridTxt maxRow" readonly="readonly" />
    </div>
    </td>
    </tr>
    </table>

    <table id="qandatbl" align="center">
    <thead>
    <tr>
        <th class="question">Question</th>
        <th class="option">Option Type</th>
    </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
    </tbody>
    </table>

    </form>

Answer 1

first. can you please change you java script to:

var $optionsText = $("<input type='text' class='gridTxtRow maxRow' />").attr('name',$this.attr('name')+"[]")
                     .attr('value',$this.val())

then your php code to:

---

UPDATE

$i = 0;
$c = count($_POST['gridValues']);

print_r($_POST['questionText']);
print_r( $_POST['gridValues'] );

$insertquestion = array();

for($i = 0;  $i < $c; $i++ ){

    switch ($_POST['gridValues'][$i]){
        case "3": 
        $selected_option = "A-C";
        break;
        case "4": 
        $selected_option = "A-D";
        break;
        default:
        $selected_option = "";
        break;
    }      

    $optionquery = "SELECT OptionId FROM Option_Table WHERE (OptionType = '". mysql_real_escape_string($selected_option)."')";
    $optionrs = mysql_query($optionquery);
    $optionrecord = mysql_fetch_array($optionrs);
    $optionid = $optionrecord['OptionId']; 

    $insertquestion[] = "'". mysql_real_escape_string($_SESSION['id'] ) . 
                    ($_SESSION['initial_count'] > 1 ? $_SESSION['sessionCount'] : '') ."' ,'". 
                    mysql_real_escape_string( $_POST['num_questions'] ) ."','".  
                    mysql_real_escape_string( $_POST['questionText'][$i] ) ."','".  
                    mysql_real_escape_string( $optionid ) ."'";

}

 $questionsql = "INSERT INTO Question (SessionId, QuestionId, QuestionContent, OptionId) 
    VALUES (" . implode('), (', $insertquestion) . ")";

echo($questionsql);