Form Elements as arrays - Passing to script to process

I am trying to pass the form two form elements as an array to a script that will display and update a DB entry. The array gets passed..ie..qty1, aty2, etc...but I am unable to access the array in the process script unless I use literals...temp=qty1 instead of temp=qty[$ctr]; The code that sends the arrays is as follows... (Method =post)

while ($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($cart)){ //while
$cntr++;
$number = $myrow[item_no];
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM shoot_prod where item_no='$number'");
$cart_row=mysql_fetch_array($result);
echo ("<tr><td width=1%><input type=text size=2 maxlength=4 name='qty[]' value=".$myrow['qty']."></td>");;
echo ("<td>".$cart_row['item_name']."</td>");
echo ("<td>".$cart_row['item_price']."</td></tr>");
$total = $total + $cart_row['item_price'];
echo("<input type=hidden name='item_no[]' value=".$myrow['item_no'].">");

To process, I have the following:
for ($ctr=1; $ctr <= $cntr; $ctr++){
echo ("Quantity: ");
echo $qty[$ctr];
echo ("<p>Item: ");
echo $item_no[$ctr];
echo ("<br>");

The problem arises in the fact that it doesn't pull the values...it returns empty unless i use qty1...

Any thoughts.

Thanks

A few;

First $cntr is being started as 1 (as is your loop in the second script) but the first value will be 0. Change the for loop to:

for ($i=0;$i<$cntr;$i++)

will solve that. Second, you are not passing $cntr to the second script that I can see. You would have to add:

echo "<input type=hidden name=cntr value='$cntr'>";

after the while loop.

Better yet, just do away with the counter incrementing and use:

$cntr=mysql_num_rows($cart);

along with the corresponding hidden form element outside of the loop (but inside the <form></form> tags.

[This message has been edited by rod k (edited June 22, 2000).]

Thanks, everything is working really well now. The counters were definitely one problem, and I think the serving was caching a page as well.

Cheers.