codeigniter associative array in post

Question

I normally name my db specific fields in my forms like this "objectname[columnname]", I tseems CI cant access these values using $this->input->post('objectname[columnname]'), what do I do? there is not a chance in hell im renaming 100+ form fields.. I am actually disliking CI, it really is getting in the way of progress by changing the de facto PHP norms...

Answer 1

I seems I can rely on the $_POST var, but I thought this was reset?

Answer 2

And were you using $_POST['objectname[columnname]'] or $_POST['objectname']['columnname'] ?

Have you tried the equivalent for the latter

$obj = $this->input->post('objectname');
echo $obj['columnname'];

?

If it works, you can write you own helper to retreive that like post_val('objectname[columnname]').

Answer 3

I just went with the $_POST['objectname']['colname'] option as i usually do even though this is probably not the CI way..