On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:56, Matthew Toledo wrote:
> SUBJECT: Getting values for posted form in HASH array rather than just
> variables.
>
> I've been using perl for a while and am just starting with PHP. I like
> it.
>
> Is there an array that holds all the information that was submitted via
> a FORM post or get.
>
> I know that PHP automatically creates variables that are named after
> the name of the INPUT tag on the HTML form. But what if I don't know
> what the names of the input tags are?
>
> Are they stored in a HASH array as well?
>
> What is the name of the array?
>
> I.E. in perl, if you use cgi-lib.pl, all the form elements are stored
> in a HASH array called %in. You don't need to know the names of the
> input tags to get the data from them.
>
> HTML HAS...
> <input name="joe" type="text>
> <input name="alice type="text>
>
> PERL Example.
> # library for handling CGI in
> require 'cgi-lib.pl';
>
> # get all the info from the form,
> # put it in HASH array called %in
> &ReadParse();
>
> foreach $key (sort keys %in) {
> print $in{$key};
> }
>
> PHP EXAMPLE...
> # is there a hash array equivalent of %in like in the perl above?
Check out the section of the manual on PHP Variables (in the Variables
chapter 7)
HTTP_POST_VARS and HTTP_GET_VARS will be the ones you are looking for -
oh and possibly HTTP_COOKIE_VARS.
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