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Using arrays in form element names July 27, 2009 1 Comment

Sometimes there is variable number of similar elements on a form. For example, phone numbers. To iterate all filled values on the server it will be nice to use arrays. And form element naming allow it:

<form method="post">
<input type="text" name="phone[0]" />
<input type="text" name="phone[1]" />
…
</form>

Using PHP it’s easy to iterate through those values now:

foreach ($_POST[‘phone’] as phone) [...]

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