RE: [PHP] getting an array out of the POST array

Remove $_POST from $_POST[firstname][$key], $_POST[middlename][$key] and $_POST[lastname][$key]. It should simply be $firstname[$key], $middlename[$key], and $lastname[$key] Not sure what your array data looks like but instead of using while() use foreach(): foreach($_POST['firstname'] as $key => $value){ $firstname[$key] = trim($_POST[firstname][$key]); $middlename[$key] = trim($_POST[middlename][$key]); $lastname[$key] = trim($_POST[lastname][$key]); } -----Original Message----- From: Ian M. Evans [mailto:ianevans@digitalhit.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 2:35 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] getting an array out of the POST array One day I need to take a vacation with a big pot of coffee and study arrays. They're my downfall. We're moving to a new server and finally have a recent version of PHP. We have a page on the site for captioning the photos with the names of the subjects. After the form is posted, the script would do a bunch of things on the names, then insert them: while (list ($key, $val) = each ($firstname)) { $firstname[$key] = trim($firstname[$key]); $middlename[$key] = trim($middlename[$key]); $lastname[$key] = trim($lastname[$key]); ...etc... Now that we have a newer version of PHP, we have the $_POST variables, so the $firstname $middlename $lastname arrays are tossed into the $_POST array. I figured that it would change the above to: while (list ($key, $val) = each ($_POST[firstname])){ $_POST[firstname][$key] = trim($_POST[firstname][$key]); $_POST[middlename][$key] = trim($_POST[middlename][$key]); $_POST[lastname][$key] = trim($_POST[lastname][$key]); When I inserted that into the database I, of course ended up with the name: "Array[0] Array[0] Array[0]" How the heck do I get the name arrays out of the $_POST arrays? Many thanks. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php