using HTTP_POST_VARS to post arrays

[petridm]

I simply want to post an array (of integers) to the next php script using the action=xxxxx.php method=post.

I want the xxxxx.php to display the array of integers i posted from the previous php script.

PS1: i have php 4.06 installed.
PS2: the array contains some id values which will then be used to delete some records from a mysql database , so its essential to pass all the id's to xxxxx.php script.

[[deleted]]

"the array contains some id values which will then be used to delete some records from a mysql database , so its essential to pass all the id's to xxxxx.php script."

That means you should most definately NOT send them through a POST operation. Any 'fool' could save the HTML to disk, add a few thousand extra ID's, and submit the form. Then your script would erase the entire table.

Look at sessions, they are server-side, and therefore much more secure than a POST operation.

[tasistro]

Listen to vincent, but if you still need to know...

Try:

<input type="hidden" name="myarray[0]" value="%value here%">
<input type="hidden" name="myarray[1]" value="%value here%">
<input type="hidden" name="myarray[2]" value="%value here%">
<input type="hidden" name="myarray[3]" value="%value here%">
.
.
.
<input type="hidden" name="myarray[N]" value="%value here%">

your php script will then have a variable set as $myarray which is an array of N+1 elements.

Other cool things can be done too, you can split into a multidimensional array by doing

<input type="hidden" name="myarray[dim0][item0]" value="%value here%">

<input type="hidden" name="myarray[dim1][item1]" value="%value here%">

<input type="hidden" name="myarray[dim2][item2]" value="%value here%">

etc.. you get the idea. On the script you can access the values via
$myarray["dim2"]["item2"], note the use of quotes in the php script, but not in the html code for <input>

Saludos
Gerardo

[Anon]

See heres the entire solution ....

consider u fetch ids from mysql
assume u are connected to mysql....

$sql="select ids from tablex";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
$ids=array();
while($array=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
array_push($ids,$array[ids]);
}

//so now $ids is a array of all the ids from mysql..

this is how ur form looks..
<form action=aa.php method=post>
<input type=hidden name=idarray[] value=$ids>
</form>

in aa.php
print_r($idarray);

I hope this is what u wanted....

Regards
Mandar Kelkar

[petridm]

thanx to all,
that realy helped!!!!