encodeForm doesn't handle multiple checkboxes / multi-select

[mde@…]

encodeForm adds a new variable of the same name on the query string for each checked checkbox in a group that have the same 'name' property, giving you weird-looking results like 'foo=asdf&boo=12&boo=37&boo=42.' :) And of course, trying to retrieve the value the standard way with a scripting language like Perl or Ruby on the server side (e.g., cgiboo?) only pulls out the first value.

Multiple-selects have the same problem.

I have made a small patch to serialize the values for checked/selected items in multi-selects or groups of same-name checkboxes into a comma-separated list -- you'll get 'foo=asdf&boo=12,37,42' so you can associate all the values with the single variable name.

[mde@…]

Patch for encodeForm multi-checkbox issue

[alex]

IIRC the current behavior is in place to mimic other user agents.

[mde@…]

Yep, a quick look at some raw POST data verifies that I was totally talking through my hat. The current encodeForm has got it right. I should have done my homework better.

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Milestone 0.3.1 deleted