[Webdev] PHP+Javascript request

[Nick Murtagh]

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 18:28, Dave Wilson wrote:
> IIRC, if the query string contains
> 
> varname=FIRST&varname=SECOND
> 
> then PHP will create a variable called "varname" with result SECOND. 
> However, if the query string contains
> 
> varname[]=FIRST&varname[]=SECOND
> 
> then PHP will create an array with varname[1]==FIRST and varname[2]==SECOND

By far the coolest solution to this would be to "fix" php :)
Take a look at main/php_variables.c in the php source distribution.
You could mess around with the variable is_array in
php_register_variable_ex() and see if you can force all variables to be
arrays :) As far as I can tell the reason they do this is to save
time by not having to work out which variables have multiple values.

Nick