I have a form with several fields, all of which can be multiplied
<input type="text" name="child_name[]" />
<input type="text" name="child_age[]" />
<input type="text" name="child_gender[]" />
<input type="text" name="child_school[]" />
I want to add multiple rows to a table in the database using a foreach, but every time I try I get an error saying
"Unknown column 'Array' in 'field list'"
When i print out the data it shows all of the fields as arrays, so I must be doing something wrong with the foreach statement, but I have no idea what
Array ( [child_name] => Array ( [0] => child one [1] => child two) [child_age] => Array ( [0] => 14 [1] => 13 ) [child_gender] => Array ( [0] => male [1] => female ) [child_school] => Array ( [0] => burnside [1] => summer heights high ) )
Any help would be greatly appreciated!#
UPDATED
Here is the code for my foreach
foreach ($_POST['child_name'] as $child_name)
{
$insert_children_data = array(
'child_name' => $_POST['child_name'],
'child_age' => $_POST['child_age'],
'child_gender' => $_POST['child_gender'],
'child_school' => $_POST['child_school']
);
$insert = $this->db->insert('portrait_children', $insert_children_data);
return $insert;
}
Try this (assuming your form got same number of elements for each of the child_name, child_age etc):
for ($ix=0; $ix<count($_POST['child_name']); $ix++)
{
$insert_children_data = array(
'child_name' => $_POST['child_name'][$ix],
'child_age' => $_POST['child_age'][$ix],
'child_gender' => $_POST['child_gender'][$ix],
'child_school' => $_POST['child_school'][$ix]
);
$insert = $this->db->insert('portrait_children', $insert_children_data);
//return $insert; //you cant return here. must let the loop complete.
}
Make one array. array contain all the data of particular child like
Array (
[0] => Array (
[name] => child1
[age] => 5
[gender] => male
[school] => 1school )
[1] => Array (
[name] => child2
[age] => 10
[gender] => male
[school] => school2 )
Please try below Code
$i =0;
foreach($_REQUEST['child_name'] as $child)
{
$child1[$i]['name'] = $child;
$i++;
}
$i =0;
foreach($_REQUEST['child_age'] as $child)
{
$child1[$i]['age'] = $child;
$i++;
}
$i =0;
foreach($_REQUEST['child_gender'] as $child)
{
$child1[$i]['gender'] = $child;
$i++;
}
$i =0;
foreach($_REQUEST['child_school'] as $child)
{
$child1[$i]['school'] = $child;
$i++;
}
$insert = $this->db->insert('portrait_children', $child1);
return $insert;
You are assigning an array to a key, which is not feasible, try looping all the elements
foreach ($_POST as $key)<br>
{<br>
foreach($key as $v=>$v1)<br>
{<br>
$s[$v] = $v1;<br>
}<br>
}<br>
print_r($s);