Hi - I'm wanting to get the value of the first item in a form, but because the name of the field is dynamically generated, I can't do a typical:

$_REQUEST['foo'];

Is there a way to extract that data without utilizing the name of the field? It will always be the first field to arrive.

This may sound dumb - but why use request instead of GET or POST? I've never used it before :P
Also, could you use foreach() to get what you want? Or post another (hidden) field with the value=dynamic field name, then use that to access the variable?

new PHP er,

You're coming from ASP experience, aren't you? WW is right in that you should pull your parameters out of either the $_POST or $_GET superglobal arrays.

Now for your question: I'm not sure if those arrays are associate or not, but try using a numeric index instead of field name.

Report back and let us know... I'm not in a place where I can test that right now.