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[nycphp-talk] Re: Passing array elements as... strings?

Tom Melendez tom at supertom.com
Thu Jan 4 14:00:30 EST 2007


On 1/4/07, Nate Abele <nate at cakephp.org> wrote:
> Two solutions that come to mind are to (a) parse out the var name and
> the index from the string, or (b) submit the var name and the index
> as two separate POST vars.  Any reason either of those wouldn't work?

That's what I came up with too.
$key = "bar[1]";
preg_match("/(.*)\[(\d)\]/",$key,$m);
$name=$m[1];
$index=$m[2];
$myarray=$foo->$name;
print $myarray[$index];

Very interested in other solutions.  If bar comes in as an array (like
$_POST[bar][1]) you could probably use array_keys to suck out keys,
although I haven't tried it.

Tom
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