Using brackets but not wanting to have an array?

[Thorben Grosser]

Hello dear Newsgroup,

my problem seems somehow silly, but after some googeling, I don't find
a solution. The point is:
I have an multiple select field to which I add values using some
JavaScript. As I am willing to use all the values in a later PHP
processor, I have to call these select fields like name[] and before
submitting, I have to mark every item (JavaScript as well)
But it seems, which is in some way logical to me, as if the javascript
doesn't want to process variables like name[] as it probably threads it
like an array, which it isn't (at least not in that context). Using
name\[\] won't work either.
What could work?

To give a small sneak of what I am doing, check
http://gosingen.dyndns.tv/sura/1/programm/addmovie.php but note that
there is still a lot of mess to be cleant, the programming proably
looks disgusting to you. It is :)

thanks in advance
Thorben

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Thorben Grosser wrote:

my problem seems somehow silly, but after some googeling, I don't find
a solution. The point is:
I have an multiple select field to which I add values using some
JavaScript. As I am willing to use all the values in a later PHP
processor

Overall (I'm PUI again) the hole problem is artificially intoroduced by
Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans by intoducing the idea of "no right
syntacs but PHP and no gods but convenience". There are not any legal
demands to ask "foo[]" to be just a set of char codes constituting the
literal. And I see no legal/reasonnable reasons to find a hack for a
OOP-compliant language to follow the PHP proprietary CGI build-up.