Title: Save widget options as array
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Save widget options as array

 *  Resolved [shazdeh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shazdeh/)
 * (@shazdeh)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/save-widget-options-as-array/)
 * I’m using WP_Widget class and I have something like this in my `form` function:
 *     ```
       <p>
       			<label><?php _e('Test:') ?></label>
       			<input type="text" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('test') ?>[]" class="widefat" />
       			<input type="text" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('test') ?>[]" class="widefat" />
       		</p>
       ```
   
 * Now, shouldn’t WP save the ‘test’ field as an array? When you use Options API
   it does, why this doesn’t work on widgets?

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 *  Thread Starter [shazdeh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shazdeh/)
 * (@shazdeh)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/save-widget-options-as-array/#post-2243293)
 * Solved. Don’t use the stripslashes function for these fields in `update` function.

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