I have an online form which collects member(s) information and stores it into a very long MySQL database. We allow up to 16 members to enroll at a single time and originally structured the DB to allow such.
For example:
If 1 Member enrolls, his personal information (first name, last name, address, phone, email) are stored on a single row.
If 15 Members enroll (all at once), their personal information are stored in the same single row.
The row has information housing columns for all 'possible' inputs. I am trying to consolidate this code and having every nth member that enrolls put onto a new record within the database.
I have seen sugestions before for inserting multiple records as such:
INSERT INTO tablename VALUES
(('$f1name', '$f1address', '$f1phone'), ('$f2name', '$f2address', '$f2phone')...
The issue with this is two fold:
I do not know how many records are
being enrolled from person to person
so the only way to make the
statement above is to use a loop
The information collected from the
forms is NOT a single array so I
can't loop through one array and
have it parse out. My information is
collected as individual input fields
like such: Member1FirstName,
Member1LastName, Member1Phone,
Member2Firstname, Member2LastName,
Member2Phone... and so on
Is it possible to store information in separate rows WITHOUT using a loop (and therefore having to go back and completely restructure my form field names and such (which can't happen due to the way the validation rules are built.)
