How to get PHP $_GET array?

You can get them using the Query String:

$idArray = explode('&',$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]);

This will give you:

$idArray[0] = "id=1";
$idArray[1] = "id=2";
$idArray[2] = "id=3";

Then

foreach ($idArray as $index => $avPair)
{
  list($ignore, $value) = explode("=", $avPair);
  $id[$index] = $value;
}

This will give you

$id[0] = "1";
$id[1] = "2";
$id[2] = "3";

You can specify an array in your HTML this way:

<input type="hidden" name="id[]" value="1"/>
<input type="hidden" name="id[]" value="2"/>
<input type="hidden" name="id[]" value="3"/>

This will result in this $_GET array in PHP:

array(
  'id' => array(
    0 => 1,
    1 => 2,
    2 => 3
  )
)

Of course, you can use any sort of HTML input, here. The important thing is that all inputs whose values you want in the 'id' array have the name id[].

You could make id a series of comma-seperated values, like this:

index.php?id=1,2,3&name=john

Then, within your PHP code, explode it into an array:

$values = explode(",", $_GET["id"]);
print count($values) . " values passed.";

This will maintain brevity. The other (more commonly used with $_POST) method is to use array-style square-brackets:

index.php?id[]=1&id[]=2&id[]=3&name=john

But that clearly would be much more verbose.

The usual way to do this in PHP is to put id[] in your URL instead of just id:

http://link/foo.php?id[]=1&id[]=2&id[]=3

Then $_GET['id'] will be an array of those values. It's not especially pretty, but it works out of the box.