Re: Sending Multi.Multi Diamentional Arrays

Addressed to: Matt McClanahan <cardinal@dodds.net> php-general@lists.php.net ** Reply to note from Matt McClanahan <cardinal@dodds.net> Fri, 1 Sep 2000 15:42:48 -0500 (CDT) > > On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, John Coggeshall wrote: > urlencode(serialize($array)), send across however you like (Get, Post) > On the other end, unserialize(urldecode($array)) > > Or it may be possible to register it as a session variable and not > worry about serializing. I've never bothered to try it. > I would not force someone into a session just to pass a bit of data between two pages, there is quite a bit of overhead. OTOH, if there is any other reason to use sessions adding another variable to the list of registered variables, even a complex multi-dimensional array is easy. Security might be a reason to use sessions. If you look at that serialized data it is trivial to modify. If you store the data in the browser a hacker can modify it. It all depends on the data and what you are doing with it. Rick Widmer Internet Marketing Specialists www.developersdesk.com