passing an array in a form

[anatak]

Hello,

 

I have a form that I use to edit text entries from a database.

the form passes the data through a script that checks if the passed data is different (edited) than the data in the database.

 

I am trying to make the $_POST array identical to the array I get from the database but I can not seem to make this work correctly.

 

Is it possible to make the $_POST array a multidimensional array ?

Or is there a way to pass an array from one page to the other ?

 

thank you

[Alex]

I'm not entirely sure what your main question is.

 

Is it possible to make the $_POST array a multidimensional array ?

Yes.

 

Or is there a way to pass an array from one page to the other ?

Yes, use sessions

[anatak]

I would prefer not to use sessions

so how can I make the $_POST array into a multidimensional array ?

 

Could you give me an example how to build a multidimensional $_POST array ?

 

e.g.

$_POST array

[0]

    [name]=Thomas

    [age]=21

 

[1]

    [name]=Teddy

    [age]=15

 

I have no idea how to do this.

I tried with a form with <input type="text" name="[0][name]" value="thomas">

but that did not work.

 

thank you

anatak

 

[ixicoding]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php#faq.html.arrays

 

May help you out a bit.

[anatak]

aha thanks for the link ixicoding

that will probably solve my problems (i hope)

will report back

[ixicoding]

If it doesn't solve it hopefully it helps .. It's an overview on passing arrays to php directly from a form. It doesn't go into multi dimensional arrays but you may be able to specify i.e.

<input type="text" name="myArray['Myarray2'][]" /> for passing it in multi dimensional.

[anatak]

Problem solved

 

so if someone is looking how to create a multiple dimensional array in html here is an example

$i=0

<input type="hidden" name="$i[]" value="$i">

<input type="text" name="$i[name]" value="thomas">

<input type="text" name="$i[age]" value="25">

$i=1

<input type="hidden" name="$i[]" value="$i">

<input type="text" name="$i[name]" value="teddy">

<input type="text" name="$i[age]" value="15">

 

of course you have to escape the $variables this is just meant as a help to people struggling with arrays. (like I do)

 

thank you ixicoding for the link.