At 02:06 13.11.2002, Todd Cary said:
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>Many thanks!! One thing I do not understand in the "types" of variables
>is the use and referencing of a variable with the "[]". What I usually do
>is define a variable as
>
>$myvar = array();
>
>And then I use the "[]" to refer to the elements. However, if I
>understand you suggestion, which works like a champ, the use of the "[]"
>tells the interpreter to treat $myvar as an array.
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No. The '[]' doesn't have to do with a PHP variable, it only tells PHP to
treat an _incoming_ parameter as an array.
What happens when PHP parses form data is something like:
variable is named "name"[] ?
yes - $_REFERENCE['name'] = array(v1, v2, v3);
no - $_REFERENCE['name'] ? v1;
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