Bug #51634 [NEW]: Can't post multiple fields with the same name

From: Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:06:01 +0000
Subject: Bug #51634 [NEW]: Can't post multiple fields with the same name
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Operating system: Ubuntu
PHP version:      5.2.13
Package:          cURL related
Bug Type:         Bug
Bug description:Can't post multiple fields with the same name

Description:
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With CLI curl I can run
curl -F test=value -F test=value --trace-ascii trace
http://localhost/test.php
and in the file trace I see that it posted multipart/form-data with two
fields called "test" with content "value".

I need this same behaviour from PHP. But the only way at present, it seems,
to add form fields to the curl handle (and have them transmit as
multipart/form-data) is to use curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data)
where $data is an array of name->value pairs.

Obviously I can't have two pairs in this array with the same name.

I've tried array("name" => array("val1", "val2")) but that
posts the string
"Array" as the value for field "name".

I've tried array("name[]" => array("val1", "val2")) but that
posts the
string "Array" as the value for field "name[]" (PHP then parses this into
an array but only "val2" is in it.)

I've tried array("name[]" => "val1", "name[]" =>
"val2") but of course that
doesn't work since as soon as that array is initialized it's only got one
element -- the second overwrote the first.

I think allowing array("name" => array("val1", "val2")) would be
the best
solution. (And brackets should not be added to the end of "name" unless
specified.)


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Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2):            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=trysnapshot52
Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3):            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=trysnapshot53
Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0):            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=trysnapshot60
Fixed in SVN:                        http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=fixed
Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=needdocs
Fixed in release:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:                      http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:               http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=needscript
Try newer version:                   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:                 http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=support
Expected behavior:                   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=notwrong
Not enough info:                     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:                     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=php4
Daylight Savings:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=dst
IIS Stability:                       http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:                     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=float
No Zend Extensions:                  http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:           http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51634&r=mysqlcfg

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