Posting all selected options to PHP

[phpPete]

Ok, due to PHP and JS naming restrictions I'm finding it exceedingly difficult, or perhaps I'm dense, to post multiple selected options from a select list.

If I name my form: name[] ( effectively declaring an array ) then PHP picks up all the selected options no problem, however, I need to process to do a number of things with JS before i post the form and JS doesn't like element names like: name[].

I tried something like this to no avail also:

<form name="f1" ...>
<select name="f1[choices[]]"...>

When i name like so PHP does get all the posted selections, however, i am unable to do my client side processing in JS with this sort of naming.

Can anyone help me out here?

Thanks,

Pete

[phpPete]

I found this on the Php site:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php#faq.html.select-multiple

[phil karras]

If you just "assume" that all posted options fill in an array in PHP you should be able to access them. At least I've tried it since one book I was reading said it worked that way and as I remember it did work that way.

That is NOT the only way to get data with PHP. As I remember PHP gets ALL data into an array structure and any & all data can then be accessed via it's own internal array.

Look at my JS/PHP web site for my PHP example which shows how to do this: http://www.jsworkshop.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=147

The PHP test is on the 3rd row 3rd column of the link grid.
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