How to use $_GET to get multiple parameters using the same name in PHP

Question

I\'m using checkboxes to search a mysql database I have created. As the checkboxes all use the same name, when I use $_GET, it only gets the last value in the URL.

Answer 1

PHP is a little odd here. Using its standard form data parser, you must end the name of the controls with [] in order to access more than one of them.

Will be available as an array in:

$_GET['foo'][]

If you don't want to rename the fields, then you will need to get access to the raw data ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) and parse it yourself (not something I'd recommend).