Re: Re: Type of form element

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> I usually place a hidden field with the same name as the checkbox
> field before the actual checkbox field.  I store my 'false' value in
> there.  If the checkbox is checked the hidden field is overridden.
>
> <?php
>
> error_reporting( E_ALL );
>
> if( isset( $_POST[ 'submit' ] ) )
> {
>      echo '<pre>';
>      print_r( $_POST );
>      echo '</pre>';
> }
>
> echo <<<EOF
> <form method='post' action='$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]'>
> <input type='hidden' value='0' name='blah'>
> <input type='checkbox' value='1' name='blah'> Blah?
> <input type='submit' name='submit'>
> </form>
> EOF;
>
> ?>

This probably works just fine in all browsers, but...

I don't THINK the HTML and HTTP specification specificially require
ordering of HTML/INPUT/POST elements to "match up"

In fact, as I recall (and it's been YEARS since I read the damn thing)
I believe they specifically said that the ordering was NOT to be
relied upon...

Though this may well have changed in HTTP/HTML 3.0, 4.0, XHTML, etc
vesions of specifications.

It also seems like rather needless bloat of HTML, to me, unless I'm
missing something.

$blah = isset($_POST['blah']);
//update or process $blah

If the processing of $blah is particularly expensive or heinous, and
it's a pre-existing preference type of setting, I can see the savings,
but given the overhead of checking every value going in/out to compare
before update, it seems like the overhead outweighs the savings, and
clutters up the code...

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