How to add Html input values into a PHP array? - php

Question

I have a large amount of input fields. How can I pass the values into an array so I can pass the array from one page to another?
example:
<input type="text" value=<?php $arry = "compName" ?> placeholder="Company Name" />
Is this legal? How can I do this properly?
EDIT:
In my page, I have "add" and "delete" buttons that will add/delete more input fields. I also have a "preview" button at the bottom. User will add/delete before hitting preview. Preview will collect all input and will call the next page. So the amount of field is unknown.
Here's what my code/markup looks like:
<div class="panel" style="width: 98%; margin:0 auto">
<div class="row">
<div class="large-6 columns">
Advertiser Info: <hr>
<input type="text" value="compName" placeholder="Company Name" />
<input type="text" value= "adEmail" placeholder="Email" />
<input type="text" value="adContName" placeholder="Contact Name" />
<input type="text" value="adPhone" placeholder="Phone # (NO DASHES)" />
<input type="text" value="adStreet" placeholder="Street Address" />
<input type="text" value="adCity" placeholder="City" />
<input type="text" value="adState" placeholder="State/Provice" />
<input type="text" value="adZip" placeholder="Zip/Postal Code" />
<input type="text" value="adCountry" placeholder="Country" />
</div>
<div class="large-6 columns">
Billing Info: <hr>
<input type="text" value="bEmail" placeholder="Email" />
<input type="text" value="bContName" placeholder="Contact Name" />
<input type="text" value="bPhone" placeholder="Phone # (NO DASHES)" />
<input type="text" value="bStreet" placeholder="Street Address" />
<input type="text" value="bCity" placeholder="City" />
<input type="text" value="bState" placeholder="State/Provice" />
<input type="text" value="bZip" placeholder="Zip/Postal Code" />
<input type="text" value="bCountry" placeholder="Country" />
</div>
</div>
</div>
So when the user hits add and EXACT copy of above code will be made.
With that said, I want to be able to use PHP arrays for html values to pass. How can I set my inputs so that I can do this?

Answer 1

You can do some tweaks like:
Using input type elements as array elements.
So that:
<input type="text" name="elem[name]" value="<?php echo $YOUR_VALUE;?>"
<input type="text" name="elem[class]" value="<?php echo $YOUR_VALUE;?>"
<input type="text" name="elem[marks]" value="<?php echo $YOUR_VALUE;?>"
So that the variables are you are posting should be less.
In this case, you are posting only one variable instead of three.

Answer 2

Use Jquery to get all the values of input fields and make a json object of {input_name:value} or array variable of key value and then pass it in argument.
var key_value = {};
$('input').each(function(){
key_value[$(this).attr('name')]= $(this).val();
})
alert(JSON.stringify(key_value));
Now you have an object with field name as key and its value.