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[Brian Dailey]

Jesse, don't worry about having questions, they are welcome on this list.

As far as your question, yes, it can be done. If you create a form input 
labeled data[Person][name] it will be referenced in the next page like this:

$_POST['data']['Person']['name]

Some frameworks use this extensively, as it makes it easy to recursively 
go over data.

- Brian



Jesse Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Michele Waldman <mmwaldman at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>> Fernando hit is right on the head and Elijah's post was fun.  Why are we
>> still going here?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jesse Callaway
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 12:15 AM
>> To: NYPHP Talk
>> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] How to pass array when click on "submit" ?
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Zakir Tariverdiev
>> <zakir_tariverdiev at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> OnClick=AddRow()"... are you trying to send a JavaScript array to the
>>> server?
>>> This is not really a PHP issue. But check out the following link,
>>>
>> http://www.coderanch.com/t/120794/HTML-JavaScript/sending-javascript-array-s
>> erver
>>> it might help.
>>>
>>> Also, note that your City and State <input tags> are enclosed inside
>>> <label>, I don't think that was intentional on your part.
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On Mon, 1/26/09, chad qian <nynj.tech at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: chad qian <nynj.tech at hotmail.com>
>>> Subject: [nycphp-talk] How to pass array when click on "submit" ?
>>> To: talk at lists.nyphp.org
>>> Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 10:54 PM
>>>
>>> In "tbody",I can add or remove more
>> "name[]","position[]","city[]","state[]"
>>> and "zip[]" through "add" or "remove" buttons.
>>> On "create.php" page, I expect to show all like:
>>> 1.
>>> name
>>> position
>>> city
>>> state
>>> zip
>>> 2.
>>> name
>>> position
>>> city
>>> state
>>> zip
>>> 3.
>>> name
>>> position
>>> city
>>> state
>>> zip
>>> ----------
>>> --------
>>> --------
>>>
>>> How to program php script to pass all these above
>>> information?"name","position","city","state" and "zip" are all array.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> chad
>>>
>>> <form name="form1" method="post" action="create2.php">
>>> <tr>
>>> <td><strong>Step2: Board of directors:(Must have at least
>> one)</strong></td>
>>> <td>&nbsp;</td>
>>> </tr>
>>> <tbody id="dynamic_table_body">
>>> <tr>
>>> <td><label>Name:</label></td>
>>> <td> <input type="text" name="bn[]" id="bn" /></td>
>>> </tr>
>>> <tr>
>>> <td>Position:</td>
>>> <td><label>
>>> <select name="select[]" id="select">
>>> <option value="president" selected>president</option>
>>> <option value="vice president">vice president</option>
>>> <option value="secretary">secretary</option>
>>> <option value="others">others</option>
>>> </select>
>>> </label></td>
>>> </tr>
>>> <tr>
>>> <td>City:</td>
>>> <td><label>
>>> <input type="text" name="city[]" id="city" />
>>> </label></td>
>>> </tr>
>>> <tr>
>>> <td>State:</td>
>>> <td><label>
>>> <input type="text" name="state[]" id="city" />
>>> </label></td>
>>> </tr>
>>> <tr>
>>> <td>Zip:</td>
>>> <td><label>
>>> <input type="text" name="zip[]" id="textfield3" />
>>> </label></td>
>>> </tr>
>>> <tr>
>>> <td colspan="2"><button type="button" onClick="AddRow ();">Add
>>> </button></td>
>>> </tr>
>>> </form>
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>>
>> The name of a form element affects the data type? Doesn't some sort of
>> eval or ${} magic have to happen here? This is a little funky playing
>> around with bareword interpretation.
>> Is there some switch in the global configuration which turns this kind
>> of insanity off? I want my hash keys to be plain old strings, whether
>> they have square brackets in them or not.
>>
>> Referring to Elijah's post, er email... I would expect that
>>
>>
>> <input name="data[test][]" value="index 0" />
>>
>>  would yield a normal 1-dimensional array with an unfortunately named key
>>
>> $_POST['data[test][]'] == "index 0"
>>
>> -jesse
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> 
> I was just kind of caught off guard, not trying to derail the
> discussion. I had no idea that this could be done. Is it really true?
> 
> -jesse
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