Automatic code duplicater

[Frankov]

I want to make a simple code that will build a table rows, queries and selectboxes for me.

Here's an example of what I want to do :

(on the same row) A selectbox, with options fetched from a sql database. When the user chooses an option, the page refreshes and besides the selectbox, we see a desc. of what the user chose. Besides the description, there's other information fetched from the database.

I can do it for one, without much problem.
Here's the tricky part... The php will be a archiving system for order forms. We will fill this form to duplicate real orders. The selectbox is a "product-chooser", if the customer bought custom notepads, you choose that from the selectbox. But he might have bought something else as well...

That's why I want to duplicate the code. There will be multiple rows in order to choose multiple products. And I don't want to write it all, it would be much easier to look through 50 lines of code instead of 300 and more...

I want to be able to set the number of times the php will make the table.

But if I do this, all the selectboxes will have the same name and the $var will too... so that's no good. I want the code to add a distinctive number at the end of the $vars... I think you all get it...

Here's a code that someone suggested me, but it doesn't quite work... at all.
If I could get that example to work, I would be more than happy... been working on that for 2 weeks now...

$query=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM qg_clients"); 
while($row=mysql_fetch_array ($query)){
 
$holdarray=$row['name']; 
} 
 
for($enum=1 ; $enum<5 ; $enum++){
 
echo '<select name="name'.$enum.'">'; 

foreach($holdarray as $val){
 
echo '<option value="'.$val.'">'.$val.'</option>'; 
} 
echo "</select>"; 
}

If there's any other way I could do this, Im open to suggestions.
Sorry for the long story, but I want to be sure that everyone gets my concept...

[scragar]

<select name="BuyWhat[]">
<?
$query=mysql_query("SELECT * FROM qg_clients"); 
while($row=mysql_fetch_array ($query)){
$holdarray[]=$row['name']; 
};
foreach($holdarray as $val){
echo '<option value="'.$val.'">'.$val.'</option>'; 
};
?>
</select>
<input type=submit value="Order">
</form>
<?
if(isset($_POST['BuyWhat[]'])){
?>
<form action="MyBuyPage.php" method=post>
<?
for($i = 0; $i < Count($_POST['BuyWhat[]']); $i++){
$itemDetails = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM tblItems WHERE ItemID = ".$_POST['BuyWhat[]'][$i]);
// write out your item details along with how many they want to buy and such...
?>
<br>
<?
};
?>
<input type=submit value=Buy>
</form><? }; ?>