Loop for select array in php and html form

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I have a (Coffee) form that contains 60 select tags and each select tag has 16 options that contains numbers from 0 to 15. like this :

<label><select name="item[0][breakfast_blend]">
                              <option value="0">0</option>
                              <option value="1">1</option>
                              <option value="2">2</option>
                              <option value="3">3</option>
                              <option value="4">4</option>
                              <option value="5">5</option>
                              <option value="6">6</option>
                              <option value="7">7</option>
                              <option value="8">8</option>
                              <option value="9">9</option>
                              <option value="10">10</option>
                              <option value="11">11</option>
                              <option value="12">12</option>
                              <option value="13">13</option>
                              <option value="14">14</option>
                              <option value="15">15</option>
</select>Breakfast Blend</label>
<label><select name="item[1][tea]">
                              <option value="0">0</option>
                              <option value="1">1</option>
                              <option value="2">2</option>
                              <option value="3">3</option>
                              <option value="4">4</option>
                              <option value="5">5</option>
                              <option value="6">6</option>
                              <option value="7">7</option>
                              <option value="8">8</option>
                              <option value="9">9</option>
                              <option value="10">10</option>
                              <option value="11">11</option>
                              <option value="12">12</option>
                              <option value="13">13</option>
                              <option value="14">14</option>
                              <option value="15">15</option>
</select>Tea</label>

There are 60 other selects like this with other labels.

now I'm trying to set a condition to check to see which items are selected by the user, then take the value of the option and the label of that select.

so i create a if condition to check the value of the selected item but i don't know how to get the label of that item (I mean i don't know how to contain it in the loop). here is my code in php part :

for ($i = 1; $i <= count($_POST['item']); $i++) {
    if (isset($_POST['item'][$i])) {
        echo $_POST['item'][$i];
    }
}

some of my friends told that Foreach function could help but still i don't know how :/

any help to contain the label in the loop ??

Why are you making them all 1 array? If you give them each a unique nameit will be much easier for you. — GrumpyCrouton
– GrumpyCrouton, Commented Aug 30, 2017 at 15:36
the label value does not get posted back to the server. Your server will need to understand based on the name attribute what the human-readable description should be. Either you have to hard-code it, or you can use some kind of lookup table. — ADyson
– ADyson, Commented Aug 30, 2017 at 15:37
@ADyson i just add a simply code but important part of the code, i had post it to the server and its working fine — Mehdi Karimi
– Mehdi Karimi, Commented Aug 30, 2017 at 15:42

abderrahime sanadi · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-30 15:57:52Z

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You can do something like that

for ($i = 1; $i <= count($_POST['item']); $i++) {
if (isset($_POST['item'][$i])) {
    foreach($_POST['item'][$i] as $cle => $value){
     $label =  ucwords(str_replace("_"," ",$cle));
     $item = $value;
     echo  $label." ".$item;
    }
}
}

answered Aug 30, 2017 at 15:57

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Osama · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-30 15:44:24Z

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Remove the breakfast blend and tea from the name if you include it you have to echo the value of item[0][breakfast_blend] now in your code it is echoing item[0] which not give you value

<select name="item[0]">
<select name="item[1]">

answered Aug 30, 2017 at 15:44

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Mehdi Karimi Over a year ago

so how i can get each 'label' of the selected items ? the point is, i want to send it an email.

Osama Over a year ago

Within your php create array which hold the name of label index 0 is breakfast_blend and index 1is tea and so on

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