[timmerk]

Hi,

I have a form with those listboxes, where you can select multiple names.

How do I send that to PHP as an array? Checkboxes work if I name them all "name[]" in the HTML, but when I try that with this multiple selection boxes, the numbers just get appended to each other, and it's not an array. It's a string.

Thanks!

[milf]

I'm unable to test this currently, but couldn't you do something along these lines:

[php]
<select name='items[]' multiple>
<option value='1'>Apples</option>
<option value='2'>Oranges</option>
</select>
[/php]

Then, depending on how your instance of PHP is configured, you would just access the form values in a standard way ($_POST['items'] or $items if you have PHP configured to automatically store the form values in respective variable names):

[php]
// iterate over all values in items[] array
for ($i = 0; $i < count ($items); $i++) {
print "Value $i is $items[$i]\n";
}

// or do whatever you want with the values in the array
[/php]

Hope this helps.

[genevish]

Hehe, I tried to respond to this, but must have clicked the Add Topic button. Anyway, try this:

http://us3.php.net/variables.external