[thelist] site critique please

[Simon Coggins]

> Except that this case was in context of placing the onclick in the TD, not
> the anchor.  Thusly, "this" would not contain an href.

*slaps forehead*

Yes, of course, you're right. Hmm, I probably owe a tip:

A while ago there was some talk about sending arrays via forms using
PHP. Here's an alternative approach that doesn't rely on converting the
array to a delimited string:

<tip type="PHP" author="Simon Coggins">

You can use the serialize() function to pass arrays via hidden form fields 
in PHP.

On the first page do this:

<?php
$fruit=array("apples","bananas","oranges","plums");
$friut=serialize($fruit);
$fruit=urlencode($fruit);
?>

<form action="form2.php" method="post"> 
<input type="hidden" name="fruit" value="<?php=$fruit?>">
<input type="submit">
</form>



Then on the second page include this:

<?php

$fruit=$HTTP_POST_VARS["fruit"]; 
$fruit=urldecode($fruit); 
$fruit=unserialize($fruit); 
 
print "<pre>\n"; 
print_r($fruit); 
print "</pre>\n"; 

?>

You should get the original array back unchanged. 

</tip>

Simon