Re: form variable name question
| From: | (Richard Lynch) | Date: | Sat, 05 Jun 1999 00:00:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: form variable name question | ||
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At 9:56 AM 6/3/99, Monte Ohrt wrote:
>So the quesion remains: why was the decision made to require "[]" in the
>variable name? a convenience?
I would imagine it's a performance issue.
By using [] there, PHP can simply use the assignment operator as it
iterates through the variable/value pairs from a URI string. Thus, INPUTs
as arrays are handled in the same way as any INPUTs.
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