[DAL]

I am in the middle of everything and my heads all over the place, so forgive me if this sounds stupid.

I am producing a form which has update buttons that write new entries to a database. I thought I would make it user friendly and have the values 'stick' when the form reloads so the user won't lose what they wrote. (this is not the submit stage its just a change in the selection about half way down the form)

Anyway I used $_SESSION[''] variables to record the form variables which works great for all of the boxes apart from 1. I had a bit of a headache with a multi-selection box (the one where the user can hold control button and select many). I have sorted this for writing it to the mysql database with the use of
foreach ($_POST['mulitselection'] as $value)
{
write database with individual $value;
}

The thing I need to do now is to have the array copied into
$_SESSION['multiselection'] and be able to use it the same way...

forech ($_SESSION['multiselection'] as $value)...ect

The problem stems from the fact that I cant seem to get my head around why things are not working.

$count = 0;
foreach ($_POST['multiselection'] as $value)
{
$_SESSION['multiselection[$count]'] = $value;
$count++;

foreach ($_SESSION['multiselection[]'] as $testin)
{
echo $testin ."<br>";
}

}

seems to confirm with the echo that the values are there but if I put this second foreach on the outside the values are not there. ie..

$count = 0;
foreach ($_POST['multiselection'] as $value)
{
$_SESSION['multiselection[$count]'] = $value;
$count++;
}

foreach ($_SESSION['multiselection[]'] as $testin)
{
echo $testin ."<br>";
}

So my question is how to make the $_SESSION['multiselection'] array global and why is this not and the other $_SESSION[''] variables are!??

Aghhh!

[DAL]

Ok I think Ive confused everyone with that. Hows about this one;

how do you move the array $_POST['multiselection'] to $_SESSION['multiselection']?

[NeverMind]

simply as:
$_SESSION['multiselection'] = $_POST['multiselection'];

[Trevor]

How about :

PHP Code:

foreach ($_POST['multiselection'] as $key => $value) {
    $SESSION['multiselection'][$key] = $value;
} 

Of course, NeverMind's solution is easier... but if you get paid by the kb, go with my solution.

[DAL]

Thanks everyone. Guess I just needed to stop and go back to the basics. I did try originally what was suggested by NeverMind but when it didnt work I assumed that I was looking for a more complicated answer. After NeverMind and Trevor confirmed that the solution was just that easy, I changed my code back to this and after it didnt work I scanned through and realised that I put an extra character on my array name.

Whoo hoo it works. Thanks again.

[NeverMind]

but if you get paid by the kb, go with my solution

isn't this a kind of fraud?

Dal, no problem