Currently using the below code to create a string array (elements) that contains all string values from Request.Form.GetValues("ElementIdName"), the problem is that in order for this to work all my dropdown lists in my View have to have the same element ID name which I don't want them to for obvious reasons. So I am wondering if there's any way for me to get all the string values from Request.Form without explicitly specifying the element name. Ideally I would want to get all dropdown list values only, I am not too hot in C# but isn't there some way to get all element ID's starting with say "List" + "**", so I could name my lists List1, List2, List3 etc.
Thanks..
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult OrderProcessor()
{
string[] elements;
elements = Request.Form.GetValues("List");
int[] pidarray = new int[elements.Length];
//Convert all string values in elements into int and assign to pidarray
for (int x = 0; x < elements.Length; x++)
{
pidarray[x] = Convert.ToInt32(elements[x].ToString());
}
//This is the other alternative, painful way which I don't want use.
//int id1 = int.Parse(Request.Form["List1"]);
//int id2 = int.Parse(Request.Form["List2"]);
//List<int> pidlist = new List<int>();
//pidlist.Add(id1);
//pidlist.Add(id2);
var order = new Order();
foreach (var productId in pidarray)
{
var orderdetails = new OrderDetail();
orderdetails.ProductID = productId;
order.OrderDetails.Add(orderdetails);
order.OrderDate = DateTime.Now;
}
context.Orders.AddObject(order);
context.SaveChanges();
return View(order);