[solved]array of game objects to string

Unity Engine
1

hi so quick overview - i have a turn based RPG type game and this script is handling where units are placed on a sort of game board, the board itself is a someone of a chessboard with each square being its own game object and a node. my nodes are contained in an array.

i have it so that when a button is pressed the unit names and positions are saved to an SQL server so they can be loaded in a game match

what i am having trouble doing is translating the “placeholder” game object to string so it can be saved to my SQL server

any help would be appreciated, or if anyone has a better way of doing this i always welcome feedback
-links/samples&tuts are always apreciated

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class LayoutManager : MonoBehaviour
{
    string CreateLayoutURL = "localhost/tactics_arena/insertunitpos.php";

    public Image singleTile;
    public GameObject[] placeholders;

    public string inputUnitname;
    public string inputUnitposition;


    void Update()
    {
        foreach(GameObject go in placeholders)
        {
            Image image = go.GetComponent<Image> ();

            if (image != null && image.sprite.name == "ArcherCube")
            {
                //Debug.Log ("Found Archer");
                Debug.Log(go);
                inputUnitname = "Archer";
                //inputUnitposition = ??????
            }
            if(image != null && image.sprite.name == "KnightCube")
            {
                Debug.Log (go);
            }
        }
    }

    public void SavePlayerLayout()
    {
        CreateLayout (inputUnitname, inputUnitposition);
    }

    public void CreateLayout(string unitname, string unitposition)
    {
        WWWForm form = new WWWForm ();
        form.AddField ("unitNamePost", unitname);
        form.AddField ("unitPosPost", unitposition);

        WWW www = new WWW (CreateLayoutURL, form);
    }
}
2

Not sure I fully understand the question, but judging by the title, you can get the name of a particular GameObject with GameObject.name. Couldn’t you iterate over the array of game objects, find the name of each one, and add that to a separate array of strings? If that isn’t what you are asking and would like to clarify, let me know

3

sort of but i actually found a better solution to what i was doing. all my placeholder game objects were named “placeholder1, placeholder2…and so on” what i ended up doing was just having them be named 1,2,3,4 and that was much easier to translate into my SQL table then have them named something else then have an different string array

thank you for your reply though. it gave me the idea