RE: [PHP] downside to passing "[]" characters in URL?

Derek Sivers from CD Baby ... > > Is there any downside to passing an array value like this, actually using > the [] characters? > > <a > href="http://something.org?variable[value]=10">link</a> > > I see the web browser replaces it with "?variable%5Bvalue%5D=10" > > ... but it seems to work anyway. > > Can you think of any reason NOT to do this? > Is there a better way? Should I serialize it? (i use PHP 3.0.9) Well, a thing that i discovered is that PHP doesn't like posted multi-dimensional arrays... If you try to post something like array[2][6], PHP will do weird things... like as creating $array[2] not as an array, but as a standard variable!!! Believe me, i had to work my way around that problem in order to post two-dimensional arrays to a php page...