HTTP form passed variables problem

[DroppedAtBirth]

I am working on a php script and have run into a problem. On one page I have checkboxes being selected and then submited via a form post. The problem is the values and names of the checkboxes change each time the script is ran. So I have to know what they are to call them on the next page. Is there any way to retrieve all the HTTP passed variables in php that where passed without knowing the variable name?

[freakysid]

Yes there is. All the POST data will be in the associative array $HTTP_POST_VARS

So you can traverse the array and extract the $key/value pairs of all the associative elements.

<?

while( list($key, $value) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS) )
{
   echo "element $key has the value $value <br>";
}
?>

You can perform any other array function on the array $HTTP_POST_VARS -such as
count($HTTP_POST_VARS)
to tell you the number of form elements that were returned.

Another thing that I like to do when generating the form with a variable number of checkboxes with different names is to put them into an array and embed in the form a synchronized array that holds the keys.

Here is an example of what I mean:

<?
// lets say this is the current set of values
// and we are going to
$currentSettings = array("foo"=>1, "bar"=>0, "zoot"=>0);

// now print out a form from which the user can
// modify the settings using checkboxes

echo '<form name="settings" method="POST" action="foo.php">';

while( list($key,$value) = each($currentSettings) )
{
   echo '<input type="hidden" name="newSettingKeys[]" value="', $key, '">',
        '<input type="checkbox" name="newSettingValues[]" value="1"',
        $value ? 'CHECKED' : '',
        '>';
}
echo '<input type="submit" value="submit"> </form>';
?>

The above should (if I haven't made too many syntax errors) produce a form like:

<form name="settings" method="POST" action="foo.php">
<input type="hidden" name="newSettingKeys[]" value="foo">
<input type="checkbox" name="newSettingValues[]" value="1" CHECKED>
<input type="hidden" name="newSettingKeys[]" value="bar">
<input type="checkbox" name="newSettingValues[]" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="newSettingKeys[]" value="zoot">
<input type="checkbox" name="newSettingValues[]" value="1">
<input type="submit" value="submit"> </form>

Now when you process that form data in "foo.php"

<?
//pack the data back up into an associative array
$newSettings = array();

for ( $i = 0; $ < count($newSettingsKeys); $i++ )
{
   $key = $newSettingsKeys[$i];
   $value = $newSettingsValues[$i];
   $newSettings[$key] = $value;
}
?>

[DroppedAtBirth]

DAH! The same thing as in perl. I should have known that.

Thanks

The help is greatly appricated