Re: Passing Arrays Through Forms

On Thursday 16 January 2003 20:58, superbus22@attbi.com wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I've attempted this many times, but have failed to understand it each time. > I want to make it easier for myself to deal with passing variables through > a form. So I thought, why not use a single array variable to do that. If I > do such a thing, what steps do I need to take to ensure that the values in > the array are intact just as the user entered it? How do I serialize array > data from an initial form? Here's a simple example of what I might have: > > <form method="post" action="some_page.php"> > <input type="text" > name="form_vars['firstname']"></input> > <input type="text" > name="form_vars['lastname']"></input> > <input type="text" > name="form_vars['address']"></input> > <input type="text" > name="form_vars['city']"></input> > <input type="text" > name="form_vars['state']"></input> > <input type="text" > name="form_vars['zip']"></input> > </form> > <form method="post" action="some_page.php"> <input type="text" name="form_vars[firstname]"></input> <input type="text" name="form_vars[lastname]"></input> <input type="text" name="form_vars[address]"></input> <input type="text" name="form_vars[city]"></input> <input type="text" name="form_vars[state]"></input> <input type="text" name="form_vars[zip]"></input> </form> some_page.php <? $form_vars = $_POST["form_vars"]; ?>