passing an array via GET

[returnButton]

Hi.. I'm trying out a GET form for the 1st time, and I want to pass a load of fields as an array. This is for a filter, which will have things like "start from page", "display per page", "category type" etc etc.

I've named all the fields the same, ie

<input name="filter[]" value="start:1">
<input name="filter[]" value="perpage:10">

and when submitted I get

&filter[]=start:1&filter[]=perpage:10

Ideally I would like this passed as one variable, something like:

&filter[]=start:1,perpage:10

That way, I can just deal with one variable in my PHP. Plus, the URL is a lot shorter & neater.

Is this doable? Anyone done anything like this before? thanks : )

 

[vacunita]

&filter[]=start:1&filter[]=perpage:10

This is right, you are not getting several variables but just 1 filter[]

Browsers will pass the variables like that, however PHP is smart and will automatically convert the list of same name variables into an array because they have [] at the end.

So you can access the variable as $_GET['filter'][0] for the fist one $_GET['filter'][1] for the second etc...

Yes the URL will look very ugly, but there is nothing you can do about it.





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[zeland]

You can also try using implode() to convert your array into a string in the sending page then explode() it back into an array in the receiving page.

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[returnButton]

cool thanks peeps : )