note fullermd <p> I don't think they have any particular name for it. Just referred to as 'arrays from forms' or the like. </p> <blockquote> PHP also understands arrays in the context of form variables (see the related faq). You may, for example, group related variables together, or use this feature to retrieve values from a multiple select input. For example, let's post a form to itself and upon submission display the data: </blockquote> <p>(and following "Example #3" on [http://us2.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php])</p> <p>Related FAQ is [http://us2.php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php#faq.html.arrays|How do I create arrays in a HTML &lt;form>?]</p> <blockquote>The AnotherArray array will now contain the keys 0, 1, email and phone.</blockquote> <p>(for those lucky enough not to have PHP on the brain, PHP's "array" serves as both a perl 'array' and 'hash')</p> 872768 872784