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He meant the name attributes on form elements.

When a form containing <input type="text" name="foo" value="bar"> is submitted, $_POST['foo'] === 'bar' in PHP. (And it works similarly for other server-side programming languages.)



That's true, but not at all what he means. He means:

 <input type="text" name="foo[bar][]" value="yaw" />
will result in:

 $_POST['foo'][0] === "yaw";
In other words you can have a form create multidimensional arrays.


I was merely replying to the “PHP does not have access to IDs of HTML elements” statement, but good job on the additional explanation.




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