Accessing multiple form elements with same name

[baobab101]

Hi,

I use this simple form containing 4 input fields with same name:

<form action="parse.php" action="post">
<input type="text" name="fData" value="87">
<input type="text" name="fData" value="89">
<input type="text" name="fData" value="122">
<input type="text" name="fData" value="18">
<input type="submit" value="GO">
</form>

When retrieving these form values, I only get the last input field named "fData". Here's the PHP code used:

while (list ($key, $val) = each ($_POST)) {
print $key . " : " . $val . "<br>";
}

How can I access ALL input fields with same name ?

Thanks to anyone helping on this !

Louis-Gilles

[sarahk]

and the reason they need the same name is?

Given that you have control over the script surely you can have different names and then know what to do with them

I would expect that fData is passed as an array so you need to access fData[1], fData[2] etc

[netizen]

To use the same variable for multiple elements you would address each as an array string as so:

<input type="text" name="fData[]" value="87">

This will return as an array which you can then abstract as you suggested.