[Resolved] Arrays in form inputs

silent

I've seen form inputs done this way :
<input type="text" name="somearray[key]">

And then it can be accessed in $POST as
$POST['somearray']['key']

I was wondering how/why this works, and why doesn't it work when I attempt to incorporate it into a class.

Any help is very much appreciated

drew010

it works because php supports pushing elements onto an array using [] brackets. i.e. in a script you can have an array called $stuff and every time you want a new element on $stuff you can do this: $stuff[] = "newelement"; and $stuff will now be one element larger with newelement as the value in the last key. so when a form is posted, PHP automatically transforms form names to variables, so when something like somearray[key] gets turned to a variable, it gets treated as an array and the form value is pushed into the array.
why it doesnt work in your class i dont know, i would have to see the code to determine why.

silent

Sadly, I cannot post the code. It's odd, though.
When the code is not part of a class, and I do a print_r($_POST) everything is coming out fine, like this :

[somearray] => Array ( something => something etc...)

When it's part of a class, and I do a print_r($_POST), the array lists like this :

[somefiled] => Hi there
[somearray] => Array

I am so confused

drew010

well i cant be sure without the code but it probably has something to do with the scope of variables for classes.

silent

That was stupid... since it was not me that was writing some of the code, I didn't see that my partner wrote functions like this :

function whatever($something, $_POST)

hehe... he's new to classes, and $_POST was being overwritten
Thanks for the help!