Submitting a class roster. Adding 3 students at once. Each student has first, last, age.
Question: How can we get all of the students in an array of arrays?
students[0] => Array (
["first"] => "first name for 0",
["last"] => "last name for 0",
["age"] => "age for 0"
),
students[1] => Array (
["first"] => "first name for 1",
["last"] => "last name for 1",
["age"] => "age for 1"
),
...
Details
For one student:
<input type="text" name="first">
<input type="text" name="last">
<input type="text" name="age">
We can return multiple students in separate arrays like this:
<input type="text" name="students[first][]">
<input type="text" name="students[last][]">
<input type="text" name="students[age][]">
which returns an array of firsts, lasts and ages
students["first"] = [array of first names]
students["last"] = [array of last names]
students["age"] = [array of ages]
Theoretically we can get all the info for a student by accessing the same index (say "3" for each array).
We do not want to programatically add an index in the form.
Do not want:
<input type="text" name="students[hardcoded_index][first]">
<input type="text" name="students[hardcoded_index][last]">
<input type="text" name="students[hardcoded_index][age]">
If for any reason it matters, we are using Rails for views but can use form helpers or HTML.