Re: multiple select form elements question

Unless you really know what you are doing, I would suggest not using Apache2 yet. Apache2+PHP is really not fully baked at this point. Downgrade to the stable Apache1 and this will work as you expect. -Rasmus On Thu, 9 May 2002, ravi wrote: > > hello, > > i am a PHP newbie and i am stumped by the problem below and > would appreciate any thoughts: > > if i am submitting my HTML form to a PHP script, i am asked to do > something like the below, for multiple selection elements: > > HTML file: > > <form action="test.php" method="post"> > <select name="testvar[]" multiple> > <option>opt1</option> > <option>opt2</option> > <option>opt3</option> > <option>opt4</option> > <option>opt5</option> > </select> > <br> > <input type="submit"> > </form> > > then, in my test.php i am supposed to be able to access these > form elements using the $_POST global. that works for non- > -multiple choice elements, but for multiple choice elements such > as the above the values are repeated! > > for example, if i chose "opt1" and "opt2" above, and in the PHP > script i access it as below: > > $_POST['testvar'] > > then the array that is returned by the above access has 4 elements > not 2! > > count($_POST['testvar']) => 4 > $_POST['testvar'] => ('opt1', 'opt2', 'opt1', > 'opt2') > > sometimes things get even worse with the value of a hidden > element being added to one of these arrays! > > could it be the browser messing up on encountering the '[]'? i have > tested on mozilla-1.0rc1 and netscape-4.7. i am running apache2 > with php4 on freeBSD 4.3. > > any ideas? > > thanks, > > --ravi > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >