What is the expected order of an array submitted in an HTML form?

Makayla_Utah

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I'm wondering if there is any sort of guarantee on the order of POST variables I will see on the server side.My use case is I have a form that a user will fill out to enter a list of names and emails. I'm using a table rows, each of which has two inputs:\[code\]<table><tr><td><input type='text' name='name[]' /></td><td><input type='text' name='email[]' /></td></tr><tr><td><input type='text' name='name[]' /></td><td><input type='text' name='email[]' /></td></tr></table>\[/code\]The row might be cloned via javascript to allow the user to type in more names and emails so I won't know ahead of time how many will be submitted.On the server side, I see $_POST['email'] and $_POST['name'] set but I am wondering if I can safely assume $_POST['email'][0] will correspond to $_POST['name'][0], $_POST['email'][1] will correspond to $_POST['name'][1], and so on. Some basic testing seem to indicate yes but I'm wondering if there is a guarantee or if I'm just getting lucky.
 
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