Re: [PHP] Select multiple boxes

[Sean Burlington]

Ford, Mike [LSS] wrote:

-----Original Message-----
From: Cal Evans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 18 January 2003 14:41

use [] in your select box name. When it comes back in the $_POST array you
will have an array of options. It breaks HTML standard

No, it does not break HTML standards -- that is a PHP urban myth (which, to
my chagrin, I helped to propagate before a wiser head sent me to read said
standards in minute detail).  It does not even break XHTML standards.

Believe me -- I've interrogated the damn standards to within an inch of
their lives, and they nonetheless insist that [] are legal characters in
form element name= attributes, and form element name= attributes are *not*
deprecated.

while I agree that it doesn't break standards - I do find it odd.

and annoying in that it limits the ability of php to process certain forms ...

I don't see any benefit of this system - it would be better if php just created an array for suitable form data - without requiring that the element name changes.

still - I guess it works :)

--

Sean



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