RE: [PHP] Passing associative arrays between forms

As I understand it from the online docs, you have to urlencode() after serializing and urldecode() before unserializing. Ted > -----Original Message----- > From: Lars Torben Wilson [mailto:torben@php.net] > Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 2:24 PM > To: Paulson, Joseph V. "Jay" > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Passing associative arrays between forms > > > "Paulson, Joseph V. \"Jay\"" writes: > > Hey everyone-- > > > > I have a multiple page form (it's three pages long) and I am > trying to pass > > an array between each form using the implode() and explode() functions. > > However, I would like to keep the associative properties of the array I > > create and not have to keep track of what position [0], > [1],...[99] are. Is > > there any other way to pass array's between forms besides using the > > implode() and explode() functions? > > > > I've already tried cookies but I have too many values for the browser to > > handle (I have over 20 variables to pass between each form). Therefore, > > cookies won't work. > > > > Any how, any help would be much appreciated!!! :) > > > > Thanks in advance... > > Jay Paulson > > If you're willing to use cookies anyway, probably the easiest way > would be to look into session management: i.e. using PHP4's builtin > session handling functions (in the manual), or (if you're still on > PHP3) check out a package like PHPLIB (http://phplib.netuse.de). > > Alternatively, you could serialize() the data, encode it into an URL > (or POST it), then unserialize() it on the next page. Check out the > following pages: > http://www.php.net/manual/function.serialize.php http://www.php.net/manual/function.unserialize.php Cheers, Torben -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net