+
+/**
+ * Retrieves a form variable, from a set of possible similarly named
+ * form variables, based on finding a different, single field. This
+ * is intended to allow more than one same-named inputs in a single
+ * <form>, where the submit button that is clicked tells us which
+ * input we should retrieve. An example is if we have:
+ * <select name="startMessage_1">
+ * <select name="startMessage_2">
+ * <input type="submit" name="form_submit_1" />
+ * <input type="submit" name="form_submit_2" />
+ * and we want to know which one of the select inputs should be
+ * returned as $startMessage (without the suffix!), this function
+ * decides by looking for either "form_submit_1" or "form_submit_2"
+ * (both should not appear). In this example, $name should be
+ * "startMessage" and $indicator_field should be "form_submit".
+ *
+ * NOTE that form widgets must be named with the suffix "_1", "_2", "_3"
+ * and so on, or this function will not work.
+ *
+ * If more than one of the indicator fields is found, the first one
+ * (numerically) will win.
+ *
+ * If an indicator field is found without a matching input ($name)
+ * field, FALSE is returned.
+ *
+ * If no indicator fields are found, a field of $name *without* any
+ * suffix is searched for (but only if $fallback_no_suffix is TRUE),
+ * and if not found, FALSE is ultimately returned.
+ *
+ * It should also be possible to use the same string for both
+ * $name and $indicator_field to look for the first possible
+ * widget with a suffix that can be found (and possibly fallback
+ * to a widget without a suffix).
+ *
+ * @param string name the name of the var to search
+ * @param mixed value the variable to return
+ * @param string indicator_field the name of the field upon which to base
+ * our decision upon (see above)
+ * @param int search constant defining where to look
+ * @param bool fallback_no_suffix whether or not to look for $name with
+ * no suffix when nothing else is found
+ * @param mixed default the value to assign to $value when nothing is found
+ * @param int typecast force variable to be cast to given type (please
+ * use SQ_TYPE_XXX constants or set to FALSE (default)
+ * to leave variable type unmolested)
+ *
+ * @return bool whether variable is found.
+ */
+function sqGetGlobalVarMultiple($name, &$value, $indicator_field,
+ $search = SQ_INORDER,
+ $fallback_no_suffix=TRUE, $default=NULL,
+ $typecast=FALSE) {
+
+ // Set arbitrary max limit -- should be much lower except on the
+ // search results page, if there are many (50 or more?) mailboxes
+ // shown, this may not be high enough. Is there some way we should
+ // automate this value?
+ //
+ $max_form_search = 100;
+
+ for ($i = 1; $i <= $max_form_search; $i++) {
+ if (sqGetGlobalVar($indicator_field . '_' . $i, $temp, $search)) {
+ return sqGetGlobalVar($name . '_' . $i, $value, $search, $default, $typecast);
+ }
+ }
+
+
+ // no indicator field found; just try without suffix if allowed
+ //
+ if ($fallback_no_suffix) {
+ return sqGetGlobalVar($name, $value, $search, $default, $typecast);
+ }
+
+
+ // no dice, set default and return FALSE
+ //
+ if (!is_null($default)) {
+ $value = $default;
+ }
+ return FALSE;
+
+}
+
+