[Resolved] Passing Arrays

Bah__Name

I've had a productive time searching and reading posts on doing this, but I've given in and I'm going to ask.

Here's the first file:

<?php
session_start();
print "<html>";
print "<body bgcolor='aqua'>";
$aArray = array("One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six");
print "<a href='addable.php?aArray=$aArray'>Test Addable</a>";
print "</body>";
print "</html>";
?>

in which I declare an array and pass it via a URL (fingers crossed) to here:

<?php
session_start();
print "<html>";
print "<body bgcolor='aqua'>";
$aArray= $_GET['aArray'];
for( $i=0; $i<count($aArray); $i++){
     print $aArray[$i]."<br>";
}
print "</body>";
print "</html>";
?>

and it doesn't work.

I want to avoid the SESSION store and the POST, as I'm relying on them too much - it will get confusing if I add more to them as a form on my page uses the post/session a lot so form controls/elements don't upset each other.

As far as I could tell from the search, my options are:
$SESSION
$POST
implode()
explode()
serialize()
unserialize()
list()
preg_split()
urlencode()
But for some reason I just can't get any of it to work.

I'm looking for the simplest most old-fashioned way of passing an array through a URL to another page so it feels like I am 'passing an array', to a function, although its you know, to another page that needs the array.

I'd really appreciate solutions.

sidney

serialize is one way

if(isset($_GET['aArray'])) 
	{
	echo $_GET['aArray']; 
	$aArray=unserialize($_GET['aArray']);
	print_r($aArray);
	}

print "<html>"; 
print "<body bgcolor='aqua'>"; 
$aArray = array('One', 'Two', 'Three', 'Four', 'Five', 'Six'); 
print "<a href='".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?aArray=".serialize($aArray)."'>Test Addable</a>"; 
print "</body>"; 
print "</html>";

but session or globals would be better imho

Bah__Name

Thanks, I've got it. I'll have a look at serialize() anyway.

I used implode()/explode() and it works:

<?php 
session_start(); 
print "<html>"; 
print "<body bgcolor='aqua'>"; 
$aArray = array("One", "Two", "Three", "Four", "Five", "Six"); 
$aArray = implode(", ",$aArray);
print "<a href='addable.php?aArray=$aArray'>Test Addable</a>"; 
print "</body>"; 
print "</html>"; 
?>

<?php 
session_start(); 
print "<html>"; 
print "<body bgcolor='aqua'>"; 
$aArray= $_GET['aArray']; 
$aArray = explode(", ",$aArray);
for( $i=0; $i<count($aArray); $i++){ 
     print $aArray[$i]."<br>"; 
} 
print "</body>"; 
print "</html>"; 
?>

Hurrah.