#feature supporting the standard PHP convention in parsing array-style name-values in input fields from HTML

In follow up to https://github.com/node-formidable/formidable/issues/33#issuecomment-579611738:

@lmj0011 & others.

Please try npm install formidable@canary - preview of v2. The API is almost the same, check the docs or open new issue if there’s some problem.

…

@tunnckoCore this is really not working as expected.

Output

  _method: 'PATCH',
  title: 'A whole new title!',
  slug: 'a-whole-new-title',
  content: 'undefined',
  "timestamp[]['amend']": 'Fri Sep 14 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time)',
  "timestamp[]['publish']": 'Fri Sep 15 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time)',
  'timestamps[][amend]': ''

also when the names don’t have the extra [] they are still not processed as an array/object!

Code

const form = formidable({ multiples: true });
form.parse(this.req, (err, fields, files) => {
    if (err) {
        next(err);
        return;
    }
    console.log(fields)
});

Background

output from npm list:

├─┬ formidable@2.0.0-canary.20200402.2
│ ├─┬ dezalgo@1.0.3
│ │ ├── asap@2.0.6
│ │ └── wrappy@1.0.2
│ ├── hexoid@1.0.0
│ └─┬ once@1.4.0
│   └── wrappy@1.0.2 deduped

HTML form

The desired form to be processed as an array/object based on PHP convention (documentation):

<header>Dates</header>
<div class="c-card__item pure-control-group">
	<div class="os-form-group">
		<label>Draft: </label>
		<input class="flatpickr form-control" name="timestamp[amend]" type="text"
			value="<%= book.related('timestamp').get('draft') %>">
	</div>
	<div class="os-form-group">
		<label>Publish: </label>
		<input class="flatpickr form-control" name="timestamp[publish]" type="text"
			value="<%= book.related('timestamp').get('publish') %>">
	</div>
	<div class="os-form-group">
		<label>Amend: </label>
		<input class="flatpickr form-control" name="timestamp[amend]" type="text"
			value="<%= book.related('timestamp').get('amend') %>">
	</div>
</div>

Desired output

timestamp {
    draft: 'xyy',
    publish: 'xyz',
    amend: 'xyz',
}

PS. Thanks in advance & sorry if I’m missing some beginner configuration option!

[captainhusaynpenguin]

thanks for the guidance!

[tunnckoCore]

Published formidable@2.0.0-canary.20200504.1, which includes couple of other things since last published canary.