Post an "array" on submit form

Question

My code

<form action="index.php" method="post">
 <input type="text" name="item" placeholder="item"><br>
 <input type="text" name="item" placeholder="item"><br>
 <input type="text" name="item" placeholder="item"><br>
 <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
 </form>

What you see here is a simplefied version of the code I have right now. Others things you can't see at the moment are: there is a function to add more rows (jQuery) and to delete rows (also jQuery). So like name='item(countednumber)'), looks to me somehting not to implement. And I also shouldn't know how I can get all the posted values of item1, item2, item3.... etc.

Question
Is there a way of like posting item in sort of array or something? Just how can I get all the values posted of item and get the posted values in a correct order/way?

I hope someone can help me with my "problem", thanks in advance!

• N3R4ZZuRR0: you can get all the post variables using a while loop
• Quentin: @VermaJr. — Not with PHP with those names.
• sidyll: Possible duplicate of Posting array from form

Answer 1

Use [] in the input names:

<input type="text" name="item[]" placeholder="item">

Then $_POST['item'] will be an array of all the inputs.

• variableUnknown: Works like a charm, thanks for the quick answer! I will accept your answer in 8 minutes

Answer 2

PHP will create an array of data within $_GET or $_POST if the name ends in [] (or [someIndex]).

So:

 <input type="text" name="item[]" placeholder="item"><br>
 <input type="text" name="item[]" placeholder="item"><br>
 <input type="text" name="item[]" placeholder="item"><br>

and then

 $_POST["item"] # will be an array