[PHP] HTTP_POST_VARS problem

2002-02-07 Thread ejfs
Hi. I'm a newbie at this and am having problems understanding how this works. I have a form with method="post". The server program does display REQUEST_STRING as I expect (e.g., choice=yes but displaying HTTP_POST_VARS["choice"] is null). However, displaying HTTP_GET_VARS["choice"] does display "

Re: [PHP] HTTP_POST_VARS problem

2002-02-07 Thread ejfs
Please ignore my question - I just figured it out. I had the method="post" in the input type="submit" tag rather than in the form tag. It works! However, if one has an HTML select/option menu scrolling list with multiple selections, how does one get the number of values for the same name with HTT

[PHP] Associative array key as a variable

2002-02-23 Thread ejfs
Hi. I have the following PHP program executed from an HTML form where I pass the associative array key name as a variable: "; } show("countries"); show("cities"); ?> The result is always 0. The form fields do have name=countries[] and name=cities[] to indicate an array. When I hardcode the coun