Hi,
I am new to php 4 days only. My prior programming experience includes C,C++,VB6,VC6(MFC,ATL & SDK), ASP & the scripting languages VBScript & JavaScript.
I had started with Professional PHP4 (Wrox) which refers to ver. 4.0.5 and since I have been using php 4.3.4 which now has register_globals "Off" by default.I am facing a small yet very annoying problem.
If I were To access "pref_cities[]" from This code faragment. {Ref. Ch. 07 - job.php The Complex Forms example.}

<select name="pref_cities[]" multiple size="3">
            <option>Nagpur</option>
            <option>Mumbai</option>
            <option>Bangalore</option>
            <option>Chennai</option>
            <option>Kolkatta</option>
</select>


Why am I getting Invalid Argument Supplied for foreach() When I try to use the following :


foreach ($_POST['pref_cities'] as $cities)
{
echo "You are Willing To Work in - $cities <br>";
}

A workaround would be to turn register_globals "On". But that is not the solution.
Help Please.

Look Past The Flesh
AND
See Your Enemy!

Well, the code you have looks totally reasonable to me.

foreach() is a looping construct that iterates across each item in the array and sets variables containing the index and value for each iteration.

For example, if you had an array:

$cities = array("Mumbai", "Kolkatta");

foreach($cities as $city)
{
    echo "You'd work in $city.\n";
}

would print "You'd work in Mumbai.\n" in the first iteration and "You'd work in Kolkatta.\n" on the second.
  http://www.php.net/foreach

As such, your code looks fine -- $_POST['pref_cities'] is an array, just like $cities is in my little example above.

The only thing I can think of is that you're getting this error before the user submits the form. If $_POST doesn't exist, then you'll get an "undefined index" warning telling you that the $_POST array doesn't contain an index named "pref_cities".


The other thing I should talk about is what the empty brackets ("[]") mean. PHP uses this notation to append items to the end of an array. Empty brackets will create a new numeric index where the index is equal to 1 + <the greatest existing numerical index>.

In your HTML form, you have an input who's name is "pref_cities[]". If you look at the HTTP POST header information, you'll see that each city in a multiple selection is set as a distinct variable. That gets interpreted by PHP as individual assignments. The PHP version of this would be:

  $pref_cities[] = <city 1>;
  $pref_cities[] = <city 2>;
            ...
  $pref_cities[] = <city n>;

So you see, this continually appends each city to the end of the $pref_cities array.

That's important to know -- the name of the array variable is "pref_cities", _NOT_ "pref_cities[]".


Hope this helps clear things up!



Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

Perhaps I should have been more clear. I know it had to warn me about "undefined index" warning as it will do for any for any form element before it is submitted. But my question is why am I getting an "Invalid argument..." instead of an "undefined index" warning??

Look Past The Flesh
AND
See Your Enemy!

Sort of -- it will only give you the undefined index warning if you are reporting E_NOTICE level errors. Check error_reporting in php.ini -- if it's E_ALL, then you should see warnings. If it's E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE, you won't.

You'll get the invalid argument error when you're passing a non-array variable to foreach.

It's situations like this where debug functions like print_r() come in handy:

echo "<pre>";
print_r($_POST);
echo "</pre>\n"

That will show you what's actually in $_POST, and you can determine why your index isn't an array.


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

function get() {
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM user where id='2'");
echo $result."<br>";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo $row['id'];
echo '--';
echo $row['email'];
echo '--';
echo $row['name'];
echo '<br>';
}
if (!mysql_num_rows($result)>0) {
echo 'No record found!';
} else {
foreach($result as $data) {
echo $data['name'];
//echo $data->name;
}
}
}

get();


my browser shows:
Resource id #3
2--hello@a.com--itsmeka

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in \htdocs\1-2\includes\db.php on line 91