Use an array <input type="hidden" name="itemid[]" value="1">1</input> <input type="hidden" name="itemid[]" value="2">2</input> <input type="hidden" name="itemid[]" value="3">3</input>
$numberofitemids=count($itemid); echo $itemid[0]; // == 1 echo $itemid[1]; // == 2 echo $itemid[2]; // == 3 cheers -----Original Message----- From: Alia Mikati [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 2:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Forms in PHP Hello I hope u can help me with this problem. I dont know if it is possible to do it. I'm using PHP and XML to generate the folowing HTML: ... <form method="post" action="cart.php"> <input type="hidden" name="itemid" value="1">1</input> ... <input type="hidden" name="itemid" value="2">2</input> ... <input type="hidden" name="itemid" value="3">3</input> ... ... I want to use PHP to count the number of $itemid in this file. Is it possible? And how? Thx a lot -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php