Get value of form control with array name

Question

I have a named form control:

<input class="form-control" name="user['first_name']" value="">

How can I get its value after it has been submitted via POST?

I tried these and none of them seems to work:

echo $_REQUEST['user']->fname;
echo $_POST['user[fname]'];
echo $_POST['user']['fname'];

You have a typo... Debug your own code yourself using `var_dump($variable)` — PeeHaa, Oct 27 '16 at 13:43
Possible duplicate of [HTML Element Array, name="something\[\]" or name="something"?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4688880/html-element-array-name-something-or-name-something) — Mohammad, Nov 01 '16 at 13:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 27 '16 at 13:43

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Try this, get all value using foreach loop

foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
    //do something
    echo $key . ' has the value of ' . $value;
}

answered Oct 27 '16 at 13:43

Dave

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converset jordan · Answer 2 · 2016-10-27T14:05:37.340

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It's useless because your user['first_name'] will never change, then Mohammad has the good answer, it's $_POST['user']["'first_name'"], but if you want your user['first_name'] to change always, change it to put your php inside like this :

<?php echo "<input class='form-control' name='".$user['first_name']."' value=''>" ?>

edited Oct 27 '16 at 14:05

answered Oct 27 '16 at 13:47

converset jordan

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Get value of form control with array name

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