Post form with multiple fields with same name attribute - php

Question

I get a information from my DB and then I build a from based on the information. The idea is that I want to capture the score each players made in a game. This obviously mean that I would have an input field with the same name attribute of PID as well as for the score input field. My code looks like this:
<form name="enterscores" id="enterscores" method="post" action="parseFiles/parse_enterscores.php">
<b>Game number: </b> <input type="text" id="entergameID" name="entergameID" maxlength="10" size="10" placeholder="Game number" />
<hr />
<table width="50%">
<tr>
<td>
<b>First name</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>Last name</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>Score</b>
</td>
</tr>
<?php
foreach ($LoginIDs as $PID){
$Login_ID = $PID;
cleanNumber($Login_ID);
foreach (getPlayerDetails($Login_ID) as $playerdDetails) {
$Login_ID = (int)$playerdDetails->Login_ID;
$First_Name = $playerdDetails->First_Name;
$Last_Name = $playerdDetails->Last_Name;
?>
<tr>
<td>
<input type="hidden" name="PID" id="PID" value="<?php echo $Login_ID;?>" />
<?php echo $First_Name; ?>
</td>
<td>
<?php echo $Last_Name; ?>
</td>
<td>
<input type="hidden" id="number_of_players" name="number_of_players" value="<?php echo $number_of_players; ?>" />
<input type="text" id="playerscore" name="playerscore" placeholder="Score" maxlength="3" size="3" />
</td>
</tr>
<?php
}
}
?>
<tr>
<td>
<input type="submit" id="enterscoresbtn" name="enterscoresbtn" value="Submit scores" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
<?php
}?>
On my parse page I have the following code:
<?php
if(!$_POST){
header('Location: ../');
exit;
}
if(isset($_POST['enterscoresbtn'])){
require_once (__DIR__ . '/../functions/functions.php');
echo '<pre>';
var_dump($_POST);
echo '</pre>';
$PIDs = $_POST['PID'];
print_r($PIDs);
$playerscores = $_POST['playerscore'];
$number_of_players = $_POST['number_of_players'];
cleanNumber($number_of_players);
// $player = array_combine($PIDs, $playerscores);
//print_r($player);
}?>
The output I get looks like this:
array(5) {
["entergameID"]=>
string(2) "15"
["PID"]=>
string(1) "9"
["number_of_players"]=>
string(1) "4"
["playerscore"]=>
string(3) "104"
["enterscoresbtn"]=>
string(13) "Submit scores"
}
How do I get to post these values and how would I be able to get each login id tie to the correct score on the parse page please?

Answer 1

create your inputs like <input name="playerscore[<?php echo $Login_ID ?>]" /> or something like that. this will give you post data like
$_POST['playerscore'] = array( 23=> 123, 42 => '<somePlayerScore>' /* and so on ... */ )
i would have written this as a comment, but this would not allow formatting the post propperly