Re: Best Practice to Send Data to i

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to all for the responses, including the warning and caveats!

I want to move forward with this project, even with my lack of HTML
experience. I'm waiting for the HTML developer to get freed up - I want to
test my plumbing code.


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc. <
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Once more, with feeling this time.
>
> I believe that your question is how do I load an array into the $_POST
> variable from a form.  The answer is in the naming of your input fields.
>  If you append an [] to the end of each field, then all the fields named
> the same will form an array.  So ... use <input name="col1[]">.
>
> <table>
> <tr>
> <td><input name="col1[]"></td>
> <td><input name="col2[]"></td>
> ...
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td><input name="col1[]"></td>
> <td><input name="col2[]"></td>
> ...
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td><input name="col1[]"></td>
> <td><input name="col2[]"></td>
> ...
> </tr>
> </table>
>
> This will return the following arrays in $_POST (assuming the form method
> is POST): col1, col2, ...
>
>
> Mark Murphy
> STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
> mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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> Date: 02/15/2013 10:56AM
> Subject: [WEB400] Best Practice to Send Data to i
>
> I need to send a bunch of data to the i using PHP. I'm reworking a 5250
> subfile program that presents a data entry subfile to the user. The user
> enters information into the subfile fields, presses enter, and the program
> then processes each entry in the subfile.
>
> I want to do this process in HTML and PHP. I'm thinking of displaying an
> HTML table and then processing each row when the user POSTs the data. I
> want to call a stored procedure to validate the data in each row.
>
> My first thought would be to send all the data to the stored procedure as a
> series of arrays, one for each column in the . The RPG developer (who will
> write the code that will become the stored procedure) is looking for
> basically a MODS as input. I want to keep the validation SP accessible from
> both RPG and PHP.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks!
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