Getting multivalued form input

[Anon]

i have been developing some stuff in perl using cgi-lib(yeah i know outdated...)

the cgi script does some very heavy duty data cruching and is very slow, anyways i created a php script to redirect all cgi values given to it any cgi script i specify.

the problem is i use multivalued form inputs

example) i get input in sort of this way
searchparam=abc
searchparam=123
searchparam=thirdparam

from html forms and cgi-lib adds em all up in the form searchparam=abcNULL123NULLthirdparam

php seems to put em all in $searchparam
i can't seem to get the values 123 and thirdparam... i have a feeling php supports multivalued input, but i just can't find/figure out how to.

anyone plz help?!

thanx a lot!

[Anon]

oops forgot too mention...

reason i'm redirecting using a php script is that the php script says... something PLZ WAIT SEARCHING so the user doesn't think the search isn't working. I noticed php scripts load way more faster than normal cgi scripts on my system so i'm implementing it in PHP.

[Anon]

try passing it as an array
instead of passing searchparam=abc
pass searchparam[]=abc