POST variable as an array?

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From: lawpoop

Date: Thursday, October 25, 2007

Hello all -

I saw a PHP project once where the POST

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variables had an array. I
do not know how to do this myself, and I have not been able to figure
out what terms to search for to find out.

This'd be immensely helpful to me. Currently I use a method

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like
this:

print_r($_POST);

Array
(
[amount1] => 40
[check_number1] => 1001
[date1] => 10/21/07
[amount2] => 27.50
[check_number2] => 1257
[date2] => 10/23/07
)

But it'd be helpful to have something like:print_r($_POST);

Array
(
[0] => array(
[amount] => 40
[check_number] => 1001
[date] => 10/21/07
),
[1] =>
[amount] => 27.50
[check_number] => 1257
[date] => 10/23/07
)
)

Thanks!

From: Martin Mandl - m2m tech support

Date: Friday, October 26, 2007

wrote in message:

I saw a PHP project once where the POST variables had an array. I
do not know how to do this myself, and I have not been able to figure
out what terms to search for to find out.

Dear lawp,

you've to do that in html in the name tag

e.g. <input ... name="amount[1]" />

Good luck
Martin

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