Re: Complex (or not so) array data form submission?

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Jamie Krasnoo <jkrasnoo@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey all, > > I get the basics of submitting a form and organizing the $_POST data within > arrays (name[], name[key], etc). But if I wanted to submit something like > multiple addresses and have it end up organized in array form like this from > submission is this possible? > > $addresses = array( >    0 => array( >        'id'             => '1', >        'address1' => '...', >        'address2' => '...', >        'city'          => '...', >        'state'        => '...', >        'zip'           => '...' >    ), >    1 => array( >        'id'             => '2', >        'address1' => '...', >        'address2' => '...', >        'city'          => '...', >        'state'        => '...', >        'zip'           => '...' >    ) > ); > > For some reason I can't seem to come up with the right naming schema in > forms in order to get this structure. > > Jamie It should be pretty straight foward. Your fields would have name such as these: name="addresses[0][id]" name="addresses[0][address1]" name="addresses[0][address2]" name="addresses[0][city]" name="addresses[0][state]" name="addresses[0][zip]" And so on. Andrew