note 750 deleted from function.serialize by john

I have been struggling with passing arrays and objects as form variables and/or query strings and have noted some things which seem to be (unfortunately) true: 1) passing arrays or objects as query strings after serializing/urlencoding passes the exact same string when using forms and when using query strings, but the results are not the same. When using forms the string passed decodes and deserializes properly for arrays, but the query string counterpoint fails. The passed string serializes into an array, but the elements are not accessible, at least not in a standard way. e.g. echo"$passed_array[index or key]" gives an error message about scalars used as arrays.