I have the following HTML

<input type=hidden name=conf1 value=7th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-09)>

    <input type=hidden name=conf2 value=IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processsing with Applications>

    <input type=hidden name=conf3 value=jkhga>

    <input type=hidden name=conf4 value=test>

    <input type=hidden name=conf5 value=The 3rd International Conference on Adaptive Business Information Systems (ABIS'09)>



    <input type=text name=published>

And i am trying to get the values of the hidden fields in to an array using jquery. Here is what i have tried:

 var conferences = new Array();



        conferences[0] = $('#conf1').val();

        conferences[1] =$([name='conf2']).val();

        conferences[2] =$([name='conf3']).val();

        conferences[3] = $([name='conf4']).val();

        conferences[4] =$([name='conf5']).val();     

Can anyone direct me on how to read them?

Thanks in Advance

Dean