I have an inventory application using Mason. This particular form is for entering purchase orders. Our purchase orders consist of a generic block of details (date, vendor, buyer) and any number of line items.

Using an input for "How many line items does this PO have" I am able to generate a form that produces a table of line items exactly the length required. Example: 

<tr>
    <th>description</th>
    <th>partno</th>
    <th>qty</th>
    <th>price</th>
    <th>currency</th>

</tr>
<tr>
    <td><input type=text name="description1"></td>
    <td><input type=text name="partno1"></td>
    <td><input type=text name="qty1"></td>
    <td><input type=text name="price1"></td>
    <td><input type=text name="currency1"></td>
    <input type=hidden name="podid1"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td><input type=text name="description2"></td>

    <td><input type=text name="partno2"></td>
    <td><input type=text name="qty2"></td>
    <td><input type=text name="price2"></td>
    <td><input type=text name="currency2"></td>
    <input type=hidden name="podid2"></td>
</tr>

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What is the best way to pass all these variables to a mason component that does all the SQL work? How do I declair the variables qty1, qty2...etc in an <%args> if the number if them is always different?

Neil Watson
watson-wilson.ca

In reply to HTML forms and variable line items by neilwatson

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