cvs: phpdoc /en/faq html.xml

philip Wed Oct 31 03:05:52 2001 EDT Modified files: /phpdoc/en/faq html.xml Log: Expanded 'Arrays in forms' a bit. Index: phpdoc/en/faq/html.xml diff -u phpdoc/en/faq/html.xml:1.6 phpdoc/en/faq/html.xml:1.7 --- phpdoc/en/faq/html.xml:1.6 Sun Oct 14 07:55:30 2001 +++ phpdoc/en/faq/html.xml Wed Oct 31 03:05:51 2001 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <?xml encoding="iso-8859-1"?> -<!-- $Revision: 1.6 $ --> +<!-- $Revision: 1.7 $ --> <chapter id="faq.html"> <title>PHP and HTML</title> <titleabbrev>PHP and HTML</titleabbrev> @@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ </question> <answer> <para> - To get your &lt;form&gt; result sent as an array to your PHP script + To get your &lt;form&gt; result sent as an + <link linkend="language.types.array">array</link> to your PHP script you name the &lt;input&gt;, &lt;select&gt; or &lt;textarea&gt; elements like this: <programlisting> @@ -68,23 +69,31 @@ ]]> </programlisting> This produces two arrays, MyArray and MyOtherArray, that gets sent - to the PHP script. + to the PHP script. It's also possible to assign specific keys + to your arrays: + <programlisting> +<![CDATA[ +<input name="AnotherArray[]"> +<input name="AnotherArray[]"> +<input name="AnotherArray[email]"> +<input name="AnotherArray[phone]"> +]]> + </programlisting> + The AnotherArray array will now contain the keys 0, 1, email and phone. </para> <para> <note> <para> - You need not use indices with arrays in HTML, although you can - specify number or associative indices, so you can exactly specify - what indices will contain the information provided by that - input element. If you do not specify indices, the array gets - filled in the order the elements appear in the form. + Specifying an arrays key is optional in HTML. If you do not specify + the keys, the array gets filled in the order the elements appear in + the form. Our first example will contain keys 0, 1, 2 and 3. </para> </note> </para> <para> - For functions you can use to process these arrays once you get - them into your scripts, please see the - <link linkend="ref.array">Arrays section</link>. + See also + <link linkend="ref.array">Array Functions</link> and + <link linkend="language.variables.external">Variables from outside PHP</link>. </para> </answer> </qandaentry>