Accessing an element in the HTT_POST_VARS array

[cineplex]

Say I posted a form that had 5 elements on it. I want to play with the 2nd value. Could I refer to the 2nd value like this:

$HTTP_POST_VARS[1]

Is it possible? Is there a special way to do this? Can I loop through the POST_VARS with a "for" loop?

Like this?

for(i = 4; i <= $HTTP_POST_VARS.length;i = i + 5)
{
	if($HTTP_POST_VARS[i] > 0)
	{
		echo ($HTTP_POST_VARS[i]);
	}
}
	

[ChrisKing]

the $HTTP_POST_VARS array is actually an associative array, which means its keys are strings, not numbers like normal arrays. To access the second element you would have to use the string of the form variable you are submitting, i.e.

$HTTP_POST_VARS["variable2"];

To loop through them, you would use PHP's foreach:

foreach($HTTP_POST_VARS AS $post_var_name => $post_var_value) {

echo $post_var_value;

}

Hope that helps.

Chris

[dustbuster]

It looks like you've answered your own question there. Try it and see.

You can also access the values in the $HTTP_POST_VARS array by name. Say you had a form element named 'Address' in the form.

In your php script:

echo $HTTP_POST_VARS['Address'];

[dustbuster]

Nutz! Chrisking beat me to it! 🙂