Dumb. And bad.

PHP requires that you change your HTML to indicate that an input value in a form expects multiple values. That means, your HTML needs to know what your server-side architecture is coded in.

Dumb. And bad.

Example:

 <input name="foo" value="123" />
 <input name="foo" value="456" />

That code above won’t work in a POST to a .php script because one of the values for ‘foo’ will be dropped. Instead, you have to code your html like:

 
 <input name="foo[]" value="123" />
 <input name="foo[]" value="456" />

with that extra little [] bracket pair. That’s just Wrong. And bad. My HTML shouldn’t care what the server side language is. HTTP is HTTP. HTML is HTML. It’s agnostic. Unless your scripting language is broken. Like PHP is.

That’s free as in beer. Malcolm Gladwell has a review in this week’s New Yorker of Chris Anderson’s new book.

Given my new job, this quote from Anderson seems apt:

In this area you’ll find other things I’m working on and/or interested in.

But have I mentioned my beautiful boys lately?