PHP Form Submit Loop

Question

I have a form with a textarea.

The textarea has multiple words separate by a comma, see below...

<form method="post" action="send.php">
    <textarea>data1, data2, data3</textarea>
    <input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>

What I need to do is to create some kind of loop where the form gets submitted multiple times...

Each time is will send a different value from the textarea.

For example:

Start:

1. data1 .. Submit
2. data2 .. Submit
3. data3 .. Submit

End.

Is there a way to do this in php or php and javascript?

It will only submit once. Use AJAX.

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2014-03-08 00:26:13 +00:00
Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 0:26 — StackSlave
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SeanCannon · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-08 00:26:44Z

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Pseudo code :

$('#my-form').on('submit', function(e) {
    var $this = $(this),
        data = $this.find('textarea').text().split(',');

    data.forEach(function(item, index, array) {
        $.ajax({
            url : $this.attr('action'),
            data : item,
            type : $this.attr('method')
        });
    });
});

answered Mar 8, 2014 at 0:26

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Nicky Smits · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-08 00:26:46Z

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Sure. get the reference of the textarea (can also be done by id if you wish).

var text = document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0].innerHTML
var separated = text.splt(',');
for(var a = 0 ; a < separated.length ; a++){
    //SENDREQUEST IS A FUNCTION YoU HAVE TO BUILD.
    sendRequest(separated[a].trim());
}

answered Mar 8, 2014 at 0:26

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Steven Martin · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-17 07:30:29Z

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Is there a reason why you want to submit multiple time?

The easy way to do this is to sumbit the entire textbox value and then have php spilt it up using "," as a delimiter and trim off the whitespace

<form method="post" action="send.php">
    <textarea name="textboxdata">data1, data2, data3</textarea>
    <input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>

<?php
    $textboxarray = array_map('trim',explode(",",$POST['textboxdata']));
?>

OUTPUT

Array
 ( 
    [0] => data1
    [1] => data2
    [2] => data3 

 )

edited Mar 17, 2014 at 7:30

answered Mar 8, 2014 at 0:30

Steven Martin

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7 Comments

CSᵠ Over a year ago

why not use: $textboxarray; '=' ;{'trim'; explode(",",'ksjhfdm,asdkfjh,asdfas,df');}; instead? at least you get no errors

PeeHaa Over a year ago

You bold text by using **your text**, however your current code simply results in a strange multidimensional array

Steven Martin Over a year ago

well thats not bold in your comment? I guess this site is broken

user1592648 Over a year ago

@StevenMartin it's not bold in his comment because he is having it displayed as raw text and not rendered markdown code. How else is he to show you without it just bolding the text? Seriously, think before you comment. Also, adding array to the code does not make it valid, it's still wrong. This is why you don't use w3schools to learn from.

Steven Martin Over a year ago

Sorry but im not some beginner, i know how to program in many languages and I had array_map in bold and it just dissappeared, this site doesnt work. like i said before if you are right, HOW DO YOU BOLD TEXT IN A CODE BLOCK? Becuase i have ** ** and its not working????n But i guess everyone will go silent now, becuase there isnt a way!

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