-----Original Message-----
From: Stut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 4:12 PM
To: Eric Lommatsch
Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP] Access name of variable in $_POST array

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Eric Lommatsch wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 3:09 PM
> To: Eric Lommatsch
> Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Access name of variable in $_POST array
> 
> Eric Lommatsch wrote:
>> I am writing a PHP script that is going to accept variables that are 
>> passed from a PDF form and should write both the name of the variable 
>> and its value to a text file.
>>  
>>  
>> I can get the value that I want to retrieve with out problem. 
>> However, even though I have searched through the PHP.net site and 
>> googled this as well I have not yet been able to find the syntax that 
>> I need to get the names of the variables in the $_Post array.
>>  
>> Can someone point me to the place in the PHP manual where I can find 
>> the syntax to get the name of a variable in the $_POST array?
> 
> http://php.net/array_keys
> 
> As in...
> 
> $varnames = array_keys($_POST);
> 
> -Stut
> 
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> 
> Hello Stut,
> 
> That is not exactly what I am looking for. If I try using that in My 
> PHP script what I get as a result of that is repeatedly the Phrase "Post
Array"
> when I check the values there. The PDF form that is posting to the PHP 
> script is passing variable names like "Employer_name" or "Employee_Name". I
am
> hoping to get those variable names.   

Put this line at the top of the script that the form posts to...

print '<pre>'.print_r($_POST, true).'</pre>'; exit;

That will display the contents of the $_POST array and you should be able to
figure out where everything is.

By the sounds of it the posted values are actually in $_POST['Post Array']
but use the above line to be sure.

-Stut

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Sorry, I thought that I had hit reply to all. Apparently I didn't. 

Thanks that appears to actually be what I was looking for.

Thank you
 
Eric H. Lommatsch
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