?? for those who know ColdFusion and PHP

[minsan]

Here's my code:

<input type=&quot;Text&quot; name=&quot;alphabet&quot; value=&quot;abcd&quot;>
<input type=&quot;Text&quot; name=&quot;alphabet&quot; value=&quot;efgh&quot;>
<input type=&quot;Text&quot; name=&quot;alphabet&quot; value=&quot;ijkl&quot;>

In Cold Fusion, when you output these three form fields that has the same NAME attribute, you will get a 3-item list that contains the three values respectively. Like this:

<cfoutput>#form.alphabet#</cfoutput>

Will give you:

abcd,efgh,ijkl

But if you output this in PHP, you only get the last item that uses that same NAME attribute. Like this:

<?php print(&quot;$alphabet&quot; ?>

Will give you:

ijkl

My question is, how can I get the itemed list result like it does in Cold Fusion using PHP code? I absolutely have to use the same NAME attribute for all my input text fields. I'll be generating the input fields from a loop so I don't think I can use unique NAME attributes.

Thanks!

 

[sophisticate]

Place brackets after the name in your input tag. So you have <input type='text' name='alphabet[]'> .. This will store the results of each field in seperate elements of the array alphabet.

Hope this helps,

brendanc@icehouse.net

 

[minsan]

Thanks! I didn't know about that trick. Now I can create my list using a loop.

 

[tleish]

When a form is submitted to a PHP script, any variables from that form will be automatically made available to the script by PHP. If the track_vars configuration option is turned on, then these variables will be located in the associative arrays $HTTP_POST_VARS, $HTTP_GET_VARS, and/or $HTTP_POST_FILES, according to the source of the variable in question.
- tleish