retrive mulitselect form values as array

Anon

if i select all
the querystring reads
.php?list=01&list=02&list=06

however
<? echo(list); ?>

returns only the last value: 6

how can i get all the values as:
01,02,06 ?

Anon

Well...

if you decide to use query_string....

$query_string=getenv("QUERY_STRING");
substr($query_string, 6);
then explode("&", $query_string);
for($i=0; $i<count($query_string); $i++)
{
$query_string[$i]=explode("=", $query_string[$i]);
echo "$query_string[$i][1]<BR>";
}

Hope it gives you some ideas,

Anon

I really do not want to use the querystring.
any idea how I would use POST?

I wrote to the querystring for testing.
for a while i thought i was getting only one value.

thanks!
~ml

Anon

Yeah...

You can have form...

When stuff like that is submitted to php you can process it

for($i=0; $i<count($form); $i++)
echo "$form[$i]";

It's very useful,

Anon

Hey Thank You!

That's great to know!

just leaving a life asp.

these functions are much cooler.

thanks again

Anon

No problem at all,

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Anon

hmm you know this is wierd.

if i would request.form("fieldname")
in asp id get a result like 01,02,03 etc.

this is from multi select box so i cant give the form filds an array of names like you suggested..

seems very odd i can't request the form values from a multi select box?

hmmm

Anon

I thought you asked me about PHP...

In php

<input type=checkbox name=form[]>
<input type=checkbox name=form[]>
etc...

Should be processed by for loop as an array with no problem, unless checkboxes are unclicked.

Anon

posting forward to another page..

echo("$list") returns "06"

in asp it would have given me.

01,02,06

amcgrath

Or, even better, instead of select name=options try select name=options[] and you'll have your array...

Anon

Well, that's ASP,

if you pass an array to the form and then
echo "$form_array";

it will just print word array without any values. You need to loop through array in order to retrieve values. ASP might use some internal function.

Enough of that,

Anon

**index.php

<body>
<form name="formtest" method="post" action="result.php">
<select name="mylist[]" multiple size="5">
<option value="1" >one</option>
<option value="2" >two</option>
<option value="3" >three</option>
<option value="4" >four</option>
</select>
<input type=submit value="Submit" name="sort">
</body>

**result.php
<?php
for($i=0; $i<count($mylist); $i++)
echo "$mylist[$i],";
?>

Anon

formname=name[] is a lame idea...

its gives you hell if you need to call the form in any javascripts.

like:
document.Formname.['fieldname[]'].options.selected

does not work.

Anon

Well,

javascript recognizes elements of the form as

elements array, so you can do

elements.options and still access the values in the form using JavaScript -> just do some research.

As far using array notation being a lame idea -> well, when you deal with hundreds of elements of a form -> it's really convenient.

Make your picks...

Di