Getting Variables from a form...

From: Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 22:01:12 +0000
Subject: Getting Variables from a form...
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I've been using perl for a while and am just starting with PHP. I like it. Is there an array that holds all the information that was submitted via a FORM post or get. I know that PHP automatically creates variables that are named after the name of the INPUT tag on the HTML form. But what if I don't know what the names of the input tags are? Are they stored in a HASH array as well? What is the name of the array? I.E. in perl, if you use cgi-lib.pl, all the form elements are stored in a HASH array called %in. You don't need to know the names of the input tags to get the data from them. HTML HAS... <input name="joe" type="text> <input name="alice type="text> PERL Example. # library for handling CGI in require 'cgi-lib.pl'; # get all the info from the form, # put it in HASH array called %in &ReadParse(); foreach $key (sort keys %in) { print $in{$key}; } PHP EXAMPLE... # is there a hash array equivalent of %in like in the perl above? =========================== Matthew Toledo FrogNet Design & Domain Management design@frognet.net Thanks,

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