follow-up to missing data

[niche]

please see the original topic if you'd like: http://w3schools.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=32056I've written a while loop with a nested if statement. The while loop is designed to skip an item number if it's not in the $_POST array. The problem is the if statement isn't triggering any of the values in the $_POST array which looks like this: array(3) { ["item1"]=> string(1) "1" ["item2"]=> string(1) "2" ["item4"]=> string(1) "4" }. Here's the script:

$counter = 1;$src = "'$new[user]'";while ($counter < $max) {  if (isset($_POST['item$counter'])) {    echo 'here';    $index = 'item' . $counter;    $src = $src . ", '$new[$index]'";  }$counter++;}

I know the if statement isn't working because the "echo 'here';" script isn't being activated. How do I need to change my if statement?ThanksThanks

[wirehopper]

isset($_POST['item'.$counter])

[niche]

Never would have thought to lay it out that way! Thanks wirehopper.Niche