PHP & form fields w. same name

[djjaan]

Hi!

I have a problem getting values from form field in PHP

form looks like
<form ...>
<input type="checkbox" name="id" value="1">
<input type="checkbox" name="id" value="2">
etc...
</form>

Now, when I submit, the value of count($HTTP_POST_VARS['id']) is not 2 - Why I do not get all the fields into array???

help me asap

[djjaan]

Actually - I have found a solution to my problem (Interesting WHY it is not well documented?

I have to set form field name to "id[]", then it works!!!

Strange, isn't it??:p

[djjaan]

I had to modify my javascript which does check/uncheck all, go ahead and tell how I can improve this script:

function MarkAll(checked) {
        var mF = document.main;
        var chk  =  mF["id[]"];

    if (! chk.length) {
                    chk.checked = checked;
            }
            else
                    {
                    for (i = 0; i < chk.length; i++) { chk[i].checked = checked; }
                    }
}

[yelvington]

Arrays from HTML forms are not undocumented. The manual is quite clear:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php

And here:

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