I am populating an HTML form with fields pulled from a database. This means that depending on many different factors, different form fields will be placed on screen that I need to read from after it's submitted.

Since the fields are always dynamic, I'm not exactly sure how to physically take the data from the form and put it back into the database.

I set up the variables to print out the text fields based off the name pulled from the DB, -, and value1-4 (not all sets of fields have all 4 possible value fields, some just have 1 or 2) 

<input type="$stored_name-value1">
<input type="$stored_name-value2">
<input type="$stored_name-value3">
<input type="$stored_name-value4">

# assuming $stored_name is a NEW name and only 2 fields
<input type="$stored_name-value1">
<input type="$stored_name-value2">

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The thing is, there's no "common" thing between my infinite number of different name-value1-4 pairs.

How on earth can I read in the input after they submit the form?

I think a hash would be the way to do it, but I have no idea how I could get un-like data together or what I could do to make the data similar but to the point I can break it apart later.

In reply to reading dynamic form params by Anonymous Monk

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