array + form

[Anon]

I must be blind or stupid

I have a form:

<form action="array.php" method="post">
Name: <input type="text" name="personal[name]"><br>
Email: <input type="text" name="personal[email]"><br>
Beer: <br>
<input type="submit">

the next page:

print_r says: Array ( [name] => martijn [email] => geen )

At least the array has arrived
I used to get the values some like $personal[name]

whatever i try the result is 0,0

$POST[personal[name]] (chrashed)
$POST[personal] -> name (chrashed)
$HTTP_POST_VARS[personal] -> name (chrashed)
$HTTP_POST_VARS[personal][name] (chrashed)

Am i stupid or is it just impossible?

[van__]

if you have the array displaying via a print_r, then you just take that varname you have inside the print_r and call the index.

print_r($varname);
echo $varname['name'];

and it will work.
print_r wouldn't have returned an array if it wasn't there.

[Anon]

That wouldn't work, cause the variable is $HTTP_POST_VARS[personal].

I can't have $HTTP_POST_VARS[personal[name]].

[van__]

This should have worked for you then:
$HTTP_POST_VARS['personal']['name']

since $HTTP_POST_VARS['personal'] is an array
you should be able to access it's indexes if print_r was able to.

[Anon]

i tries this one. (i'm going crazy)
the contant of "personal" is:

Array ( [name] => martijn [email] => [e-mail] )

print_r($_POST[personal]);
echo "$HTTP_POST_VARS['personal']['name']";

this is wat my browser said:

Parse error: parse error, expecting T_STRING' orT_VARIABLE' or `T_NUM_STRING' in array.php on line 21

when i remove "'" it stays empty.

[van__]

echo $HTTP_POST_VARS['personal']['name'];

...posting that before would have really helped 🙂

[Anon]

tnx your my hero
this won't work:
echo "$HTTP_POST_VARS['personal']['name']";

this works: echo $HTTP_POST_VARS['personal']['name'];
whithout "".

thank you