Bug #16195 Updated: GET/POST-vars does not work according to standards

ID: 16195 Updated by: markonen@php.net Reported By: mail4news@mailme.dk -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: All PHP Version: 4.1.2 New Comment: The HTML 4 and XHTML standards in fact do support the [] characters in input field names. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.4 for HTML 4.01 and http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/ abstract_modules.html#s_extfor for XHTML 1.1 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-08 10:50:13] bigredlinux@yahoo.com I think it has become a well adopted standard to use the [] in the names to specify an array or list. I can't think of a browser or language that does not support this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-03-20 18:43:14] mail4news@mailme.dk According to (X)HTML standards you are allowed to have more than one variable with the same name in a form. One example of this is a listbox where the user can select multiple items. The common solution to this is to use "[]" after the name of the variable so that PHP treats it as an array. Ex: <select name="foo[]"> According to the standards, these characters are not allowed in the name. It is unlikely, but not probable, that you may risk incompatibillity problems with some browsers. Even though most browsers accepts it, I think PHP should follow the standards. One solution: I haven't seen the source code, so this may be more complicated to fix than I think. When parsing the data from the request there should be a check in the code that checks if it has recieved a variable with the same name. If so, it should change the original variable to an array and add the new variable in that array. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=16195&edit=1