Re: [PHP4BETA] please consider this functionality in v4

> Dusty Kline wrote: > > Hello: > I'm sorry if this is inappropriate for this list, but those of you > writing php are the people who could answer this question, so I > thought this would be the right place. (perhaps more appropriate would > be a php "wishlist", but I am unaware of any such thing) > > It would be an excellent feature of PHP to dynamically change GPC > variables to arrays, if more than one variable (from the same > operation) exists. For instance, if I did a GET operation like: > > "server/myfile.php?sanity=fading&foo=bar&sanity=gone", > php currently would have only the following true: > $foo=='bar' > and > $sanity=='gone' > > It would be fantastic if there was a feature, which could > be enabled/disabled in the config file, so that php would make all of > the following true: > $foo=='bar' > $sanity[0]='fading' > $sanity[1]='gone' You can make that happen if you rename your sanity variable to `sanity[]' in your forms/queries. This is a language feature documented in the manual. Also see the extremely nice&interesting new functions on arrays, especially compact()/extract() which may help. -- CIMPOESU Teodor, Web Programmer @ DIGICOM S.A. Bucharest, Romania @ Internet, site development @ teo@digiro.net , +(401)-330.47.28 official home page ~ http://www.digiro.net/ Internet web page ~ http://internet.digiro.net/