Req #51633 [NEW]: Accept "post" input of multiple fields with the same name
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Operating system: Ubuntu
PHP version: 5.2.13
Package: HTTP related
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description:Accept "post" input of multiple fields with the same name
Description:
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I currently have to handle post data which is submitted as
multipart/form-data and has multiple fields with the same name. The latter
means I can't use $_POST (I only get the last of the fields with the same
name) and the former means I can't use php://input or $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA.
According to http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_8.html#SEC8.1.2.3
it's fine to have multiple fields with the same name.
The obvious answer to my problem would be to append "[]" to the end of the
field names so that PHP parses them into an array. But in this case I don't
have control over the data source.
And in fact the HTML4.01 specification says at
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.2
'ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed
by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"),
colons (":"), and periods (".")'
So putting "[]" at the end of field names is actually against the HTML
specification so it seems bad to require them.
So I have two suggestions here (let me know if I should file a separate
request for the latter):
1. Whenever there is more than one field with the same name make an array,
rather than only when the field name ends in "[]". This could of course
cause issues with existing scripts which are being passed multiple values
when they don't expect it or which are relying on a later field with the
same name overwriting an earlier one, but I would wager that this is rare.
2. I could work around this right now if I could get php://input or
$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA, only they're not available since it's
multipart/form-data. Why shouldn't the raw post data be available when it's
encoded this way? It'd make it possible to work around broken post data (in
this case as far as I can see the post data is fine according to the spec
but I can imagine having to deal with actual broken data).
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Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=fixed
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Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=alreadyfixed
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Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=support
Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=notwrong
Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=submittedtwice
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PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=php4
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Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=float
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MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=mysqlcfg
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