Passing a single variable from an array through an input - php

Question

I am pulling addresses out of a mysql database. The addresses are displayed in a form, through an array, as a list with a (hidden) input and a (submit) input attached to each address. The intension is that a user can click on the (submit) input by the address they want to view and the (hidden) input would pass the ID (as_id).
What I coded works to a point. It displays the addresses and an input at each address.
What does not work is that once a (submit) is clicked for the selected address it passes " " no matter which (submit) input is chosen.
I’ve read about turning the input into an array with “[]” after the “name”. I playsed with that for a while. I got a “strip_tags() expects parameter 1 to be string, array” error and got lost for a few hours on that. I gave it up; didn’t think I was going in the right direction.
`enter code here`
echo "<div class='searchres'>";
echo "<form name='choose' method='post' id='choose' action='asset_search.php'>";
echo "<table>";
while ($asset_info = mysql_fetch_array($search_rs)) {
array_pop($asset_info);
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td width='400px'>";
echo $asset_info['as_id'] . " ";
echo $asset_info['as_st_number'] . " ";
echo $asset_info['as_st_dir'] . " ";
echo $asset_info['as_st_name'] . " ";
echo $asset_info['as_st_desig'] . " ";
echo $asset_info['as_unit_num'] . " ";
echo $asset_info['as_city'] . " ";
echo "<br />";
echo "</td>";
echo "<td>";
echo "<input name='hide' type='hidden' value='" . htmlspecialchars($asset_info
['as_id']) . "'>";
echo "<input name='search' type='submit' id='search' value='View Property'>";
}
echo "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
echo "</form>";
echo "</div>";
I only need to pass the as_id, not the whole array. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I am assuming you want to check this line:
echo "<input name='hide' type='hidden' value='" . htmlspecialchars($asset_info['as_id']) . "'>";
You use the name hide, this should be hide[] then you should check for the value of $_POST['hide'].
Edited:
But there is something else wrong with your code. You use one form for all addresses, with the same button for all addresses. You need to make a different form tag for each address. In that case you do not need to put [] behind the input name, although I would pick another name than 'hide'. Put the whole form in the while loop.