下拉菜单确定表单的实例-PHP HTML5 CSS

Question

I'm relatively new to web-programming in general so my question may seem a little ridiculous but I've done a good amount of research and can't seem to figure out an answer...

So I have a basic registration form that registers a competitor for a competition. The idea is that the school's coach would go and register all of their competitors on the same page. I'd like for there to be a dropdown menu that an ordinal list of numbers and when a number is selected I'd like 'n' instances of the form to show up where 'n' is the number of competitors.

Is this possible? or should I just put 10 or so registration forms on the page and submit what is filled out? Thanks!

Answer 1

it is possible. you would simply put the number into a get variable in the links.

register.php?number_of_forms=1
register.php?number_of_forms=2
register.php?number_of_forms=3

when they click the link, your register.php page would loop that many times, creating that many forms.

for ($i = 0; $i <= $_GET['number_of_forms'], $i++) {
   // print form here

}

Answer 2

Since the coach needs to fill out all the information, isn't it the same effort to key in form by form to register the competitors? If you are new to web programming, this is the easier approach.