PHP - Explode or Implode Values into an Array? - php

Question

I'm creating a simple survey and I want the values in the column to be just (1) one row and separated with "|". But the only problem is, how do I save those values that I've got from the $_POST into an array on my database? For example:
Male|Employed|Married| instead of this...
<?php
$cnt = 1; // VARIABLE FOR QUESTIONS //
$query = "SELECT * FROM questions";
$result = mysqli_query($connection, $query);
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_object($result))
{
$choices = explode ("|", $row->choices);
if(isset($_POST['submit_post']))
{ // eq - radio button name (choices) for $cnt - question # //
$choice = $_POST["eq$cnt"]; // What to do in this $_POST part? //
$query = "INSERT INTO users(answers)";
$query .= "VALUES ('{$choice}')";
$create_post_query = mysqli_query($connection, $query);
}
?>
<form action="" method="post">
<?php
if($row->num ==0)
{
$num=" ";
} else
{
$num=$row->num.". ";
}
?>
<p id="eqIdentify_<?php echo $cnt ?>"><strong><?php echo $num; echo $row->questions; ?></strong> <?php ?> <?php echo $cnt; ?>
<?php
// VARIABLE FOR CHOICES //
for($a=0;$a<count($choices);$a++)
{
?>
<br/><label><input type="radio" name="eq<?php echo $cnt;?>" value="<?php echo $choices[$a] ?>" /><?php echo $choices[$a]?></label>
<?php
}
?>
<?php
$cnt = $cnt + 1;
}
?>
<input type="submit" name="submit_post">
</form>

Answer 1

change your table structure so you have a field for each of the questions.
like
ID Question1 Question2
and then change your insert query such
INSERT INTO `answers`( `question1`, `question2`, `question3`, `question4`) VALUES ([value-2],[value-3],[value-4],[value-5])
But please please look in to PDO and prepared query's