Re: Pass an array using GET or POST?

SUre it helps :-) at least for me, don't know for the owner of the post ... On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Jeff Gannaway wrote: webmas: At 05:36 PM 6/22/00 -0600, Scott S. Nicholson wrote: webmas: >Is there any way to pass an array from one page to another using GET or webmas: >POST? webmas: webmas: There may be an easy way around this, but here's what I've done in the past: webmas: webmas: <? webmas: webmas: // Note that the array can be defined any way and can be of any size. webmas: // The lines below are only for this example. webmas: $MyArray[0] = "Apples"; webmas: $MyArray[1] = "Oranges"; webmas: $MyArray[2] = "Grapes"; webmas: $MyArray[3] = "Peaches & Pears"; webmas: webmas: // Now find out the size of the array. webmas: $Size = sizeof($MyArray); webmas: webmas: // Now run through a WHILE loop to go through each array item. webmas: $Counter = 0; webmas: WHILE ($Counter < $Size) webmas: { webmas: // IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO RAWURLENCODE() EACH ARRAY ITEM. If you don't, a webmas: // value such as "Peaches & Pears" will louse up the URL. webmas: webmas: $MyArrayEncoded[$Counter] = RAWURLENCODE($MyArray[$Counter]); webmas: webmas: // This loop will print HIDDEN INPUT tags for the use of form. You can also webmas: // combine them togeter in a string to make an <A HREF= > tag. Whatever. webmas: webmas: PRINT "<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=MyArray[$Counter] webmas: VALUE=\"$MyArrayEncoded[$Counter]\">"; webmas: webmas: $Counter++; webmas: } webmas: webmas: ?> webmas: webmas: The rsulting form will look something like: webmas: webmas: <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=MyArray[0] VALUE="Apples"> webmas: <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=MyArray[1] VALUE="Oranges"> webmas: <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=MyArray[2] VALUE="Grapes"> webmas: <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=MyArray[3] VALUE="Peaches%20%26%20Pears"> webmas: webmas: When it goes to another PHP script, it will create an array named $MyArray webmas: and populate the first 4 values with the ones you sent. webmas: webmas: Hope this helps, webmas: -Jeff Gannaway webmas: webmas: -- ---------------------------------- Yurais Fernández Leal MediRed Network SysAdmin. yurais@medired.scu.sld.cu http://www.scu.sld.cu/ ICQ: 33792610 ICQ-GW: 1031 Phone: (53) 226-54204 ------------