Re: Tricky array question

Hello Rainer, what kind of disadvantages do I take with me, if my form does not validate? Is this a problem because of the spiders, or the functionality? It works fine so far on all browsers I know. Can you please give more details? Thanx Andy "Rainer" <rainer.schreiber@chello.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:20020205101947.28065.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi Andy, > > I was just reading your message, do I see that you send an array with a > form? > Like <input name="glacier[x]"> ? > I just wanted you to know that using brackets [] is not allowed in the > html-name attribute! Your html-page will not validate :( > > The sollution is sending al your vars as simple vars (no array) and collect > them with HTTP_GET_VARS[] or HTTP_POST_VARS[], php-variables. > > Maybe this will also be a sollution for your problem... just take a look > from another point of view :) > > Cheers, > Rainer. > > > "Andy" <news.letters@gmx.de> wrote in message > news:20020205100354.16285.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > Hi there, > > > > I have a tricky array question. > > > > My app is passing via post a array variable called glacier. Now I am > > checking for the content > > of this array. Because there are more of those arrays, I am getting all > the > > names out of a db. > > > > How is it possible to get the value and keep the name of the array > dynamic? > > > > e.g: > > Array name passed by post is: $glacier // > > contains e.g. $glacier[0] = testname > > Array with category names coming out of db is: $category // contains > e.g. > > $category[0] = glacier > > > > echo $categories[0]; // returns glacier > > echo $glacier[0]; // returns testname > > > > I tryed $categories[0][0] but it returns only the first letter of glacier > > (g) > > > > Any ideas?? > > > > Thanx, Andy > > > > > > > >