RE: Multiple Select And Javascript Issue

> I'm interested in hearing your hidden-fields work-around (the part that > isn't too bad). I need to do something like this, but haven't gotten > around to trying. The steps I had mentally composed are: > > 1. output SELECT element items without the [] on the end of the name. > 2. bind a function to onChange that updates a hidden field > 3. hidden field should be urlencoded somehow?? > > And that's where it gets sketchy. It seems like the hidden field value > has to be PHP code that populates the array or something. Not directly, > of course, but somehow. > I have just posted another attempt at this. The second post refers to the fact that HTML only has one hidden type of field. If you give it a name like Item[], PHP expects it as an array. I have attached this to the FORM element of the HTML page. ONSUBMIT="return SetHidden(this)" I then cycles through the SELECT object and populates a hidden field. I've tried building and attaching a Javascript array but it jst comes out with comma delimited values. This isn't bad as I can explode them out anyway. I just thought that a real array would be useful. > If that's what you're doing, then you could at this stage also just insert > into $HTTP_POST_VARS, right? Is HTTP_POST_VARS actually writeable from Javascript? > > > > SELECT with MULTIPLE options is being built by Javascript code > that won't > > accept a variable name like "items[]" so it fills a field > called "items". > > > > This is'nt too bad as I can work around it with a hidden field. > > > > The problem is that PHP doesn't populate HTTP_POST_VARS with the entries > > from "items" unless they are acutally selected. > > > > Can I get PHP to return all values from the SELECT MULTIPLE variable? > > Regards GRANT WALTERS Walters & Associates, P O Box 13-043, Johnsonville, Wellington, New Zealand Phone: +64 4 4765175 CellPhone: 025 488265