Assign a variable to an infinite number of items of a form to a processing page.

I select a dynamic number of CATEGORIES to a page.
while (ocifetch($curser)){
echo "<INPUT TYPE=text name ="$category_value">
}

Ok here is the thing, I do not know the number of CATEGORIES there are. So how do I assign a variable to each value from the form.

foreach value in page A, get that variable on page B.

I know that if I new the exact CATEGORY's I could select them out of the DB using the unique name of the CATEGORY as the form name. On pageB I would say $category1 = $_POST['category_name'];
$category2 = $_POST['category_name'];
so on.......

I do not know the number of the categories that will be displayed on page A, untill it is pulled from the DB. So how will I know the number od varible to use on page B, and how do I assign the values of $_POST[] to them?
Each CATEGORY may of may not have a weight assigned to it.

Any ideas will be GREATLY accepted!

The way I've often handled this in the past is to assign a prefix to a given group of fields. So all fields that represent fields might be named "cat_<something>" where <something> is the database result. Then you can iterate over your $_POST vars and look for fields whose name begins with "cat_" to determine which ones are categories. No need to assign additional variables on page B -- just use the $_POST array.

That worked perfect. I just did a while(list(($key, As $value) each($_POST)));

The syntax may not be right here in this example but that is the concept I used to get the Form name and Value.