Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 06/13/06 01:51

Egbert Teeselink wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to process a form that I got from a JSP generated page.
> Basically, want to take out and process some of the data, and redirect the
> rest to a JSP page that will handle the rest. All works well, i traverse
> $_POST, writeout hidden input fields and autosubmit the form with a little
> javascript, a perfectly acceptable solution for our users.
>
> However, the data the JSP page sends contains one certain input with the
> same name a couple of times. Due to complicated reasons, I cannot change
> that name into a PHP-style array. PHP, however, throws all the values of
> those fields away except for the last one.
>
> Is there any way to retreive data from inputs with duplicate names? I know
> that with GET, I could just parse the query string myself, but sadly i need
> to use $_POST (the thing I'm processing in PHP is a file upload). I have no
> way of changing the input names themselves (and see no alternative other
> than pulling a lot of ugly javascript hacks in the JSP page to fake it all).
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Egbert
>
>

Write those out as

name="optionname[]"


The [] causes the values to be stored in the array, i.e.

$_POST['optionname'][0]
$_POST['optionname'][1]
$_POST['optionname'][0]
...
etc.

If you can't change the html being written, then I agree with ambush - you'll
have to check the raw data.




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