On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Jens Teich <info@jensteich.de> wrote:

Maybe this is only a problem of my wrong handling of html forms.

I try to set up a group of checkboxes like this:

<form action='test.html'>
<input type='checkbox' name='array[]'>
<input type='checkbox' name='array[]'>
<input type='checkbox' name='array[]'>
...

I try to get the user input into a Lisp array with an easy-handler but get only an empty array.

The name='array[]' syntax is useful in php which actually *uses* that sort of syntax to assign values to an array, but the docs indicate that hunchentoot requires you to actually specify a non-negative integer as the index for the array value. So, you would need to do something like name="array[0]", name="array[1]", etc.

When clicking the submit button I see an URL like

test.html?array%5B%5D=on...

where I expect

test.html?array[0]=on...

If this is already my problem it has nothing to do with huchentoot, but I would appreciate any kind of help ...

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. The bracket characters aren't allowed in a url, and so are url-encoded automagically by the browser.

~TJ