Create multiple Insert statements from multiselect list

Question

I want to thank everyone in advance for the help on this one.
I have a multiselect list that I would like to use to create multiple Insert statements. I would like to then take those statements and execute them against the database, thus inserting the records. My thoughts are below;
1.     Customer selects multiple items in the list
2.     Clicks the submit button
3.     onclick event walks through the string created by the multiselect list and creates the Insert statements by walking through an array of the values.
4.     the Insert statements get executed against the database
5.     page redirects to the proper page after the process is done.
I actually have already created a javascript function that will use the split command on the string to create an array. I then get the length of the array and walk through a loop creating the sql statements. I am not sure what to do from here. How can I get the sql to execute.
I am not wed to this approach. If there is a better idea out there please do not hesitate to share it with me. I am relatively new to APEX and have not done much work in pl/sql or javascript. But I learn fast, so don’t hold back.
Thanks again and please let me know what questions you have for me.
Derek.

Answer 1

I setup the demo app on apex.oracle.com:
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=26255:3
Login as demo / demo
Go to the "products" tab. There is a Test region with a multiselect list. It shows product names (with product id's) from the demo_product_info table.
When you select multiple things from the list and click apply, it uses the following procedure to simply insert a new record for each into the product table. It increments the product_id by 1000 and prepends "DUPLICATE " to the product_name:
declare
cursor c_products is
select product_name, product_id
from demo_product_info
where instr(':' || :P3_X || ':', ':' || product_id || ':') >= 1
order by 1
begin
for r_product in c_products loop
insert into demo_product_info (product_id, product_name)
values (r_product.product_id + 1000, 'DUPLICATE ' || r_product.product_name);
end loop;
end;
You can see that is working by using it on the duplicate entries themselves.
-Richard