Re: downside to passing "[]" characters in URL?

eme erre punto MR wrote: > > Derek Sivers from CD Baby ... > > > > Is there any downside to passing an array value like this, actually using > > the [] characters? > > The only downside I've ran into is trying to manipulate these values with javascript on the client side, You may run into some problems with the [] syntax in the URL. > > <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... > Did you take a look at wddx? You can serialize and deserialize these complex data structures, and easily pass them through a URL. -- Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net> http://www.ispi.net/