Mar 17th, 2009, 10:21 PM
Sorry you had such a rum time of it!
This is actually just the way PHP works, it's not a Form Tools-ism. PHP requires that multi-select form elements have the [] chars in order to send all the selected items along - it's needed for both checkbox groups and multi-select dropdowns.
But you're quite right: I should document it better. The question is where... any suggestions? Maybe included in an "Add Form" tutorial? Perhaps a "Common pitfalls" section or something...? Structuring the documentation to make it as user friendly as possible is an art unto itself.
This is actually just the way PHP works, it's not a Form Tools-ism. PHP requires that multi-select form elements have the [] chars in order to send all the selected items along - it's needed for both checkbox groups and multi-select dropdowns.
But you're quite right: I should document it better. The question is where... any suggestions? Maybe included in an "Add Form" tutorial? Perhaps a "Common pitfalls" section or something...? Structuring the documentation to make it as user friendly as possible is an art unto itself.