[PHP-DEV] multiselects and arrays

2001-05-10 Thread Max Vysotskiy
Hi. Why doesn't PHP convert mutiselect values with plain names (not array-like) to arrays. Is there any reason to not doing this? Example: I have a page with multiselect, which name is SEL1 (I cannot use square brackets because I need to use a JavaScript on the page, so, it's not allowed in

Re: [PHP-DEV] multiselects and arrays

2001-05-10 Thread Max Vysotskiy
Thanx But why not just to convert plain field names without [] to arrays?? Is there any reasons to not doing this? Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 9dec79$aa9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:9dec79$aa9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Example: I have a page with multiselect, which name is SEL1 (I

Re: [PHP-DEV] multiselects and arrays

2001-05-10 Thread Max Vysotskiy
Andrei Zmievski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... That's been a pet peeve of mine as well. I think that if PHP sees multiple variables with the same name in POST data, it should make an array out of them.. And in GET data either I think. Why

Re: [PHP-DEV] multiselects and arrays

2001-05-10 Thread Max Vysotskiy
Well. It could be prevented with some directive. Something like ?php_convert_multiple_to_array? :-))) Adam Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 001f01c0d969$6494ca00$8d010a0a@griffin">news:001f01c0d969$6494ca00$8d010a0a@griffin... Just from my point of view, I've got a lot of legacy code

Re: [PHP-DEV] multiselects and arrays

2001-05-10 Thread Max Vysotskiy
Andrei Zmievski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Thu, 10 May 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote: Why does it make more sense? Is there any advantage in using this over using foo[]? By changing this behavior, we're actually losing functionality,

Re: [PHP-DEV] multiselects and arrays

2001-05-10 Thread Max Vysotskiy
Well You can use something like this: variable = documents.forms[0].elements['foo[]']; Zeev Suraski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... At 19:20 10/5/2001, Andrei Zmievski wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote: Why does it make more