How to pass and read an array of an array in PHP?

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Jesse Allen

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Hopefully someone can help me here, it's kind of complicated. I'm trying to pass data from a form to an XML doc. Part of the form allows multiple contributors to be appended. In the XML I'd like it to look like:

<contributors>
<contributor>
<name></name>
<role></role>
<association></association>
</contributor>
...
</contributors>

And my form is set up more or less like this in HTML:

<input name="contributor[name[]]" />
<input name="contributor[role[]]" />
<input name="contributor[association[]]" />

The data passed just fine when the page was set up like this:

<input name="contributorName[]" />

But the data came in the order name1, name2, role1, role2, etc...
It seems like doing an array of an array should solve the ordering problem but I think I either forgot how to properly write PHP or it's just really late. Here is the PHP I have written relative to this piece:

// Collect information from POST request
foreach($_POST as $key => $value) {
if(is_array($value)) {
// Special Case for contributors
if($key == "contributor") {
$event->addChild($key);
for($i = 0; $i < count($value); $i++) {
$c = "contributor";
$event->$key->addChild("contributor");
$event->$key->$c->addChild("name", $value[name[$i]]);
$event->$key->$c->addChild("role", $value[role[$i]]);
$event->$key->$c->addChild("affiliation", $value[affiliation[$i]]);
}
}
// If it's just a single level array set
else
{
$event->addChild($key."Set");
for($i = 0; $i < count($value); $i++) {
$event->$key->addChild($key, $value[$i]);
}
}
// If it's not an array, just add it
} else {
$event->addChild($key, $value);
}
}

Here is the kind of error I got:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[', expecting ']' in /nfs/aesop01/hw12/d22/codexa/process.php on line 37

It's obviously something about the double level array but it seems like it should work. If anyone has had similar problems and/or found solutions I would like to hear them! Thanks.
 
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