How to make array of textbox fields in PHP? - php

Question

I'm using the CodeIgniter framework.
I'm using the form_input function to make a 2d array of textboxes and pulldowns.
The function produces HTML like this:
<input type="box" name= "variable">
I need to create 30 rows of 5 textboxes (time, event, supplies, sucess{yes/no}, comment).
My plan was to somehow be able to uniquely identify them all so at a later stage when I $Post them to another page it wont get confused as to which textbox is time1 or which textbox is time2.
I'm trying to make this array of texboxes in php so that when I use a for loop with (ISSET) I can stop when I get to a row that is not completed by the user.
This is my code here but im not too sure if its spot on
for ($i =0; $i< 30; $i++)
{
//time part of event field
echo form_input ($events['time',$i]),
//the event itself
form_input ($events['event',$i]),
//supplies used
form_input ($events['supplies',$i]),
//successful?
form_dropdown ($events['success',$i] $success),
//comment if necessary
form_input ($events['time',$i]);
echo '<br/>';
}

Answer 1

I really don't understand either but regarding the $_POST object; this is from the CI docs:
CodeIgniter comes with three helper
functions that let you fetch POST,
COOKIE or SERVER items. The main
advantage of using the provided
functions rather than fetching an item
directly ($_POST['something']) is that
the functions will check to see if the
item is set and return false (boolean)
if not. This lets you conveniently use
data without having to test whether an
item exists first. In other words,
normally you might do something like
this:
if ( ! isset($_POST['something']))
{
$something = FALSE;
}
else
{
$something = $_POST['something'];
}
With CodeIgniter's built in functions
you can simply do this:
$something = $this->input->post('something');