Hi Robin, Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 8:28:50 PM, you wrote: > On 19/06/07, Richard Davey <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> $userparam = "test['sam'][]"; >> >> // How to check if $userparam exists in the $_POST array >> // and get all the values from it? > full_key_exists("test['sam'][]", $_POST) // returns true if key is set > full_find_key("test['sam'][]", $_POST) // returns value of key or undef. > function full_key_exists ($key, $array) { > preg_match_all('/[^][]+/', $key, $branch); > if (!sizeof($branch[0])) false; > foreach ($branch[0] as $index) { > if (!(is_array($array) && isset($array[$index]))) return false; > $array = $array[$index]; > } > return true; > } > function full_find_key ($key, $array) { > preg_match_all('/[^][]+/', $key, $branch); > if (!sizeof($branch[0])) return; > foreach ($branch[0] as $index) { > if (!(is_array($array) && isset($array[$index]))) return; > $array = $array[$index]; > } > return $array; > } Now that is one elegant solution. Thank you very much indeed. Cheers, Rich -- Zend Certified Engineer http://www.corephp.co.uk "Never trust a computer you can't throw out of a window" -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php