From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating system: All PHP version: 4.1.2 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: GET/POST-vars does not work according to standards
According to (X)HTML standards you are allowed to have more than one variable with the same name in a form. One example of this is a listbox where the user can select multiple items. The common solution to this is to use "[]" after the name of the variable so that PHP treats it as an array. Ex: <select name="foo[]"> According to the standards, these characters are not allowed in the name. It is unlikely, but not probable, that you may risk incompatibillity problems with some browsers. Even though most browsers accepts it, I think PHP should follow the standards. One solution: I haven't seen the source code, so this may be more complicated to fix than I think. When parsing the data from the request there should be a check in the code that checks if it has recieved a variable with the same name. If so, it should change the original variable to an array and add the new variable in that array. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=16195&edit=1 -- Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16195&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16195&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16195&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16195&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16195&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16195&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16195&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16195&r=submittedtwice
