I'm an avid user of both and for all intents and purposes, you're right. PHP loses it's simplicity in the fine detail controls it offers, while CF makes rapid development easy and simple.
They both have their ups and downs and even though the example you mention is true, there are numerous different ways of doing this with PHP that make it a lot more easy... Cheers, !k -----Original Message----- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 2:07 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Simple thing in CF is painfully clunky in PHP I just found out something about PHP that makes me thankful that I don't use it. Someone on another list asked a question about multiple checkboxed with the same name. For example: <INPUT NAME="ck" TYPE="CHECKBOX" VALUE="example1">example1<BR /> <INPUT NAME="ck" TYPE="CHECKBOX" VALUE="example2">example2<BR /> <INPUT NAME="ck" TYPE="CHECKBOX" VALUE="example3">example3<BR /> In Coldfusion, if you check all three of these boxes, you'd wind up with a form variable named "ck", with a value of "example1,example2,example3". Apparently in PHP, with a setup as above, you'd only wind up with the LAST value in that set "example3". To gain access to all values in PHP you have to set the name of the form element to "ck[]", which is the shortcut for creating an array. <input name="ck[]" type="checkbox" value="1">example1<br /> <input name="ck[]" type="checkbox" value="2">example1<br /> <input name="ck[]" type="checkbox" value="3">example1<br /> Then do stuff with it to get it into list format: $ck=''; foreach($_POST[ck] as $item) { $ck .=$item."|"; } This just makes me unbelievably thankful for Coldfusion's simplicity. <!----------------//------ andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --------------//---------> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:255847 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
