Posted by Good Man on 05/17/07 20:32

Mike P2 <sumguyovrthar@gmail.com> wrote in news:1179433389.464406.302460
@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

> I used to use arrays in input data that will be turned into a
> superglobal more often, but now that I care more about xHTML validity,
> I don't. Validation checking websites (particularly the W3C validator)
> yell at me for having square brackets in a name or id attribute. I
> started going the simple way of just separating what would be the
> array name from what would be the subscript with an underscore and
> parsing that out with PHP later. Is there a better, valid way of doing
> this that will have PHP set up my multidimensional superglobals for me
> as it would with the square brackets?
>
> -Mike PII
>
>

Hi Mike

i think square brackets for the 'name' attribute is fully valid xhtml -
you just can't have the ID with square brackets.

My code for forms tends to look like:
<input type="checkbox" value="yep" name="myBox[1]" id="myBox1" /> box 1
<input type="checkbox" value="yep" name="myBox[2]" id="myBox2" /> box 2

etc....

When processing the form, you can still do...

foreach($myBox as $key=>$value) {

}

....to retrieve the appropriate key/value pairs.

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