RE: [PHP] Retrieving a list of field names

> -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel J. Rychlik [mailto:drychlik@tcsconsult.com] > Sent: 22 May 2003 18:01 > > I am relatively new to PHP, coming from a background in perl. > I was wandering if their was a set function that would > retrieve the field names from a HTML form. I have built a > rather long HTML form and I wanted to use some shortcuts or > smart function to retrieve the field name and their values. > Rather than using a lot of $_POST = "fieldname" statements. I think you may be slightly confused here. $_POST['fieldname'] is the way to refer to the value of the form field with attribute name="fieldname" (assuming your form has method="post"!). If you want to loop through all of the posted form fields, just do something like: foreach ($_POST as $fieldname=>$value) Cheers! Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser, Learning Support Services, Learning & Information Services, JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, Beckett Park, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom Email: m.ford@lmu.ac.uk Tel: +44 113 283 2600 extn 4730 Fax: +44 113 283 3211