Shaun, That is the documented behaviour for form fields in PHP.
See "Dots in incoming variable names" on the following page: http://php.net/variables.external Cheers, David Grant Shaun wrote: > Hi, > > I have a form on my site with many file fields for users to upload files. I > am trying to verify that for each file uploaded it corresponds with the name > of the file field i.e. > > <tr> > <td>File_1.CSV:</td> > <td><input type="file" name="File_1.CSV"></td> > </tr> > <tr> > <td>File_2.CSV:</td> > <td><input type="file" name="File_2.CSV"></td> > </tr> > > However if I loop through the $_FILES array like this: > > foreach( $_FILES as $key => $value ){ > echo '$key = '.$key.'<br />'; > echo '$value = '.$value.'<br />'; > } > > $key = File_1_CSV > $value['name'] = File_1.CSV > $key = File_2_CSV > $value['name'] = File_2.CSV > > The . is replaced with an underscore in the $key value. I could get around > this with a substr() but it seems a little inelegant, can anyone tell me why > this is happening please? > > Thanks for your advice. > -- David Grant http://www.grant.org.uk/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
