Get form values into an array in PHP

Is it possible to get form field values into an array? Example:

<?php
     array('one', 'two', 'three');
?>

<form method="post" action="test.php">
    <input type="hidden" name=&开发者_StackOverflowquot;test1" value="one" />
    <input type="hidden" name="test2" value="two" />
    <input type="hidden" name="test3" value="three" />
    <input type="submit" value="Test Me" />
</form>

Is it possible to pass all form values no matter the number of them to the array in PHP?

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Yes, just name the inputs the same thing and place brackets after each one:

<form method="post" action="test.php">
    <input type="hidden" name="test[]" value="one" />
    <input type="hidden" name="test[]" value="two" />
    <input type="hidden" name="test[]" value="three" />
    <input type="submit" value="Test Me" />
</form>

Then you can test with:

<?php
    print_r($_POST['test']);
?>

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It already is done.

Look at the $_POST array.

If you do a print_r($_POST); you should see that it is an array.

If you just need the values and not the key, use

$values = array_values($_POST);

Reference: $_POST

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This is actually the way that PHP was designed to work, and one of the reasons it achieved a large market penetration early on with web programming.

When you submit a form to a PHP script, all the form data is put into superglobal arrays that are accessible at any time. So for instance, submitting the form you put in your question:

<form method="post" action="test.php">
    <input type="hidden" name="test1" value="one" />
    <input type="hidden" name="test2" value="two" />
    <input type="hidden" name="test3" value="three" />
    <input type="submit" value="Test Me" />
</form>

would mean that inside test.php, you would have a superglobal named $_POST that would be prefilled as if you had created it with the form data, essentially as follows:

$_POST = array('test1'=>'one', 'test2'=>'two', 'test3'=>'three');

There are superglobals for both POST and GET requests, i.e., $_POST, $_GET. There is one for cookie data, $_COOKIE. There is also $_REQUEST, which contains a combination of all three.

See the documentation page on superglobals for more information.