Re: Form Processing Question - Empty Fields

On Wed, May 23, 2007 11:40 am, Stephen wrote: > I have a script to process the post from a form. > > The form is used to upload photos and has fields for the filename, > alt text, caption and a checkbox to indicate if this photo is the > main page image rotation. > > I wanted to build a general routine to build the form to allow for a > varying number of photos to upload. > > I use main_image[] for the various checkboxes for each photo. > > I see that the checkbox is *not* set, I get nothing back, and if the > second photo is checked (and the first not checked), I get > main_image[0] = 'on'. > > And I see this happens for the caption[] array as well. > > This seems to me to be pretty ugly. > > Am I understanding this properly? > > Do I really have to use main_image1, main_image2.... No. You can use: name="main_image[0]" name="main_image[1]" name="caption[0]" name="caption[1]" and the keys will be pre-set by the HTML to make sense of your data structures. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?