Re: Multiple selections

At 02:06 13.11.2002, Todd Cary said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >Many thanks!! One thing I do not understand in the "types" of variables >is the use and referencing of a variable with the "[]". What I usually do >is define a variable as > >$myvar = array(); > >And then I use the "[]" to refer to the elements. However, if I >understand you suggestion, which works like a champ, the use of the "[]" >tells the interpreter to treat $myvar as an array. -------------------[snip]-------------------- No. The '[]' doesn't have to do with a PHP variable, it only tells PHP to treat an _incoming_ parameter as an array. What happens when PHP parses form data is something like: variable is named "name"[] ? yes - $_REFERENCE['name'] = array(v1, v2, v3); no - $_REFERENCE['name'] ? v1; -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/