Re: Help retrieving an HTML array

Mauricio Pellegrini wrote:

Hi , I have a HTML page with a form in which there are some inputs like these: input type=text name=xname value="3303" input type=text name=xname value="9854" .... input type=text name=xname value="n..." the name of the input is always the same ( xname ) This generates automatically generates an array named xname in HTML with all the diferent values assigned to a diferent position.

that sentence is: a, borked b, incorrect the following is in no way legal HTML: 'input type=text name=xname value="n..."' assuming xHTML it should be: <input type="text" name="xname" value="n..." /> but that doesn't get you what you want, the name of the inputs should be 'xname[]' not 'xname' - when the name of each input is 'xname' php will read in each value overwriting the previous one... so $_POST['xname'] will contain the value of last 'xname' input in the page. so: <input type="text" name="xname[]" value="n..." />

			      ^^----- these are the important chars!

My question is : How do I retrieve that array from within PHP ? I've tryed the following $xname=$_REQUEST['xname']; and then echo $xname[0][0] ; // this returns nothing

	echo $xname[0] ;    // this returns only first digit of the first input 

None of the above seem to recognize that xname is ( in HTML ) an array . Any help greatly appreciated Thanks Mauricio On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 19:38, adriano ghezzi wrote:

if i understand well you need to get an array from html post if you use the same name for your html fields you automatically have an array in $_POST eg input type=text name=myfield value="field_1" input type=text name=myfield value="field_2" you'll get the array ar_myfield = $_POS['myfield'] you should achieve the same result using myfield[key] in the name of html hyh by ag. 2005/10/2, Martin van den Berg <martinvdberg@gmail.com>:

Newbe question: How does one convert an array into a HTML GET request easely? Are there any standard functions? Same for HTML POST requests. Thanks, Martin. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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