is it possible to assign the name attribute of several select controls in a form the same name value and appending square brackets at end of the name value so that the various values selected in the several select controls will be available in an array when the form is submitted. this idea works with textboxes and checkboxes where if the textboxes are many they can be assigned the same name with square brackets at the end(eg name="txt[]") and the values of all of the textboxes will be available in an array when the form is submitted and each can be accessed by using any of of the php array fuctions (eg foreach($_POST['txt'] as $txt){........}).
eg

<form action="submit.php" method="post">Text1<input type="text" name="txt[]" value=""/>Text2<input type="text" name="txt[]" value=""/>Text3<input type="text" name="txt[]" value=""/></form>

server side:

PHP Code:

foreach($_POST['txt'] as $txt){echo $txt} 


the above code will output each of the textbox values in turn.

The [] are actually invalid characters in element attributes and there is ABSOLUTELY no need to do ANYTHING to return form elements as an array.

Simply by using the same value in the name attribute (without the []) all the ACTIVE values will be returned as a comma separated string, and it doesn't take much imagination to turn that into an array!