Re: Possibly more of an html question, but...

on 7/3/00 2:47 PM, Millaway, John at john@Intersphere.com wrote: >> Try something like this: >> <select name="select_test[]" multiple> >> <option value="selection_1">Number 1 >> <option value="selection_2">Number 2 >> <option value="selection_3">Number 3 >> ... >> <option value="selection_n">Number n >> </select> >> >> HTML supports an array datatype(sort of). > > It's purely a PHP thing. If php sees the name of the variable as "foo[]" it > creates an array in variable "$foo", and populates it with each value > corresponding to the parameter named "foo". > > The query string could look like this: > $ø·2§¬ > []¡ªBvô•http://www.bar.com/blah.php4?foo[]=bar&foo[]=whatever&foo[]=blah Well, it will urlencode the '[' and ']' so it will be like &foo%5a%5b=blah, or something like that. But it will decode properly when PHP goes to read it. Also, just recently I bumped into a problem of doing it this way. Apparently '[' and ']' are illegal characters for a variable name in JavaScript. Which means that you can't refer to a multiple select in both JavaScript and PHP. I had to write a little function that packed all the selected values of (for example) 'select_test' into a hidden field of comma separated values--i.e select_test_array and then parse it when the form was submitted. Kinda a bummmer, but it worked. Has anyone figured out a more effective method of referring to a multiple select in both PHP and Javascript on the same form? Thanks! -k