From: Operating system: Ubuntu PHP version: 5.2.13 Package: HTTP related Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:Accept "post" input of multiple fields with the same name
Description: ------------ I currently have to handle post data which is submitted as multipart/form-data and has multiple fields with the same name. The latter means I can't use $_POST (I only get the last of the fields with the same name) and the former means I can't use php://input or $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA. According to http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_8.html#SEC8.1.2.3 it's fine to have multiple fields with the same name. The obvious answer to my problem would be to append "[]" to the end of the field names so that PHP parses them into an array. But in this case I don't have control over the data source. And in fact the HTML4.01 specification says at http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.2 'ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".")' So putting "[]" at the end of field names is actually against the HTML specification so it seems bad to require them. So I have two suggestions here (let me know if I should file a separate request for the latter): 1. Whenever there is more than one field with the same name make an array, rather than only when the field name ends in "[]". This could of course cause issues with existing scripts which are being passed multiple values when they don't expect it or which are relying on a later field with the same name overwriting an earlier one, but I would wager that this is rare. 2. I could work around this right now if I could get php://input or $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA, only they're not available since it's multipart/form-data. Why shouldn't the raw post data be available when it's encoded this way? It'd make it possible to work around broken post data (in this case as far as I can see the post data is fine according to the spec but I can imagine having to deal with actual broken data). -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51633&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=51633&r=mysqlcfg
