[PHP-DOC] cvs: phpdoc /en/faq html.xml

[Philip Olson]

philip          Wed Oct 31 03:05:52 2001 EDT

  Modified files:              
    /phpdoc/en/faq      html.xml 
  Log:
  Expanded 'Arrays in forms' a bit.
  
  
Index: phpdoc/en/faq/html.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/faq/html.xml:1.6 phpdoc/en/faq/html.xml:1.7
--- phpdoc/en/faq/html.xml:1.6  Sun Oct 14 07:55:30 2001
+++ phpdoc/en/faq/html.xml      Wed Oct 31 03:05:51 2001
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.6 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.7 $ -->
  <chapter id="faq.html">
   <title>PHP and HTML</title>
   <titleabbrev>PHP and HTML</titleabbrev>
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@
     </question>
     <answer>
      <para>
-      To get your &lt;form&gt; result sent as an array to your PHP script
+      To get your &lt;form&gt; result sent as an 
+      <link linkend="language.types.array">array</link> to your PHP script
       you name the &lt;input&gt;, &lt;select&gt; or &lt;textarea&gt;
       elements like this:
       <programlisting>
@@ -68,23 +69,31 @@
 ]]>
       </programlisting>
       This produces two arrays, MyArray and MyOtherArray, that gets sent
-      to the PHP script.
+      to the PHP script.  It's also possible to assign specific keys  
+      to your arrays:
+      <programlisting>
+<![CDATA[
+<input name="AnotherArray[]">
+<input name="AnotherArray[]">
+<input name="AnotherArray[email]">
+<input name="AnotherArray[phone]">
+]]>
+      </programlisting>
+      The AnotherArray array will now contain the keys 0, 1, email and phone.
       </para>
       <para>
        <note>
         <para>
-         You need not use indices with arrays in HTML, although you can
-         specify number or associative indices, so you can exactly specify
-         what indices will contain the information provided by that
-         input element. If you do not specify indices, the array gets
-         filled in the order the elements appear in the form.
+        Specifying an arrays key is optional in HTML.  If you do not specify 
+        the keys, the array gets filled in the order the elements appear in 
+        the form.  Our first example will contain keys 0, 1, 2 and 3.
         </para>
        </note>
       </para>
       <para>
-      For functions you can use to process these arrays once you get
-      them into your scripts, please see the
-      <link linkend="ref.array">Arrays section</link>.
+      See also 
+      <link linkend="ref.array">Array Functions</link> and 
+      <link linkend="language.variables.external">Variables from outside PHP</link>.
      </para>
     </answer>
    </qandaentry>