[Stevo]

Hi all, I have been using PHP for about 3 months so bare with me...

I'm building a site that uses lots of forms, thankfully they're all quite simple requests for email address/comments etc, at the moment I am getting the variables from the post array on each individual page like this:

<?php
$name=$_POST['Name']; 
$business=$_POST['Business'];
$email=$_POST['Email'];
?>

which works fine, but it isnt very efficient, especially if theres lots of variables. I want to create a generic form handler that i can call as an include, so use the POST array more like;

<?php
$userinput=$_POST ;
mycheckInputfunction($userinput);
echo "Thanks for your enquiry".$userinput['0'] ; ?>

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[AJReading]

You could loop through the POST array and assign a variable for each item in the array, this would probably not be a good idea though as people could potentially post anything they want and start messing with your variables.

Perhaps this would be better than manually assigning each variable.

$form = array('Name', 'Address', 'Postcode', 'Etc');
foreach ($form as $field) {
    if (isset($_POST[$field])) {
        $$field = $_POST[$field];
    }
}

This will create $Name, $Address, $Postcode etc for you and on line 4 where the variables are defined you can use any clean up functions you may want to perform on the user input.

[Stevo]

Brilliant,

Thanks AJ that sounds like what i'm after I'll give it a go