Hi Sabine, Its been my experience that you need square brackets after the input checkbox name for PHP to see an array. This page discusses that: http://www.evolt.org/article/Storing_form_array_data_to_MySQL_using_PHP/18/60222/ Change your code to the following and give it a try. <ul id="colors"> <li><input name="colors[]" id="id1" type="checkbox" value="1" /><label for="id1">red</label></li> <li><input name="colors[]" id="id2" type="checkbox" value="2" /><label for="id2">blue</label></li> </ul> Aaron On 12/15/05, Sabine <phpdev@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Aaron, > thanks for your answer. The HTML elements, which "represent" arrays are > causing problems. > I just added > <ul id="colors"> > <li><input name="colors" id="id1" type="checkbox" value="1" > /><label for="id1">red</label></li> > <li><input name="colors" id="id2" type="checkbox" value="2" > /><label for="id2">blue</label></li> > </ul> > > to your minimalistic script. > Checked both and got > Array ( [colors] => Array ( [0] => 1 [1] => 2 [2] => 2 ) [testvar] => > pleasedontcorrupt [submit] => submit ) > for post. > > I don't really think it's a problem of my code. > Perhaps a problem of the servers configuration. But I'm not really > familiar with installation and configuration duties. So I don't know > where to search. > > But meanwhile I read something about input filters in Apache 2. > And thought if there is a filter on this server which corruptes my post > vars? > > Config is (I don't know which parameters are really importend): > ["IHOST_VERSION"]=> "Linux-1.0" > ["SERVER_SOFTWARE"]=> "Apache/2.0.55 > ["SERVER_PROTOCOL"]=> "HTTP/1.1" > > PHP 4.3.11 > Server API Apache 2.0 Filter > > I searched for information if PHP 4.3.11 is supposed to work fine with > Apache 2.0.55, but didn't find a clear answer. > > Perhaps you know (or someone else knows) if my thoughts are going in the > right direction? > > Bye > Sabine > > > > > > > > > > > > > Aaron Koning schrieb: > > > I wasn't aware you could use = instead of echo (<? > > =$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>). Try making an even simpler HTML/PHP example > > and see if the problem exists there. Then you can incrementally build > > your HTML/PHP back up to the point where it is breaking. Example: > > > > <?php > > print_r($_POST); > > ?> > > <html> > > <head> > > </head> > > <body> > > <form action="" method="post"> > > <input type="hidden" name="testvar" value="pleasedontcorrupt" /> > > <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /> > > </form> > > </body> > > > > > > Aaron > > > > On 12/15/05, *Sabine* <phpdev@xxxxxxx <mailto:phpdev@xxxxxxx>> wrote: > > > > Hello to all, > > > > I distributed my app to a new server and suddenly had values saved > > twice > > in the db and so on. > > I tracked it down and found out, that the problem is the content > > of $_POST. > > Vars are doubled, Strings corrupted. Absolutely absurd. > > I have no idea where to search for the reasons. > > PHP-Version is 4.3.11 > > Does anybody else have an idea? > > > > Thank you in advance > > Sabine > > > > > > A simple testcase: > > > > <?php > > echo "Post:"; > > var_dump($_POST); > > ?> > > <html> > > <body > > > <form id="formular" action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>" > > method="post"> > > > > <ul id="colors"> > > <li><input class="buttons" name="colors[]" id="id1" > > type="checkbox" value="1" title="chose color" /><label > > for="id1">red</label></li> > > <li><input class="buttons" name="colors[]" id="id2" > > type="checkbox" value="2" title="chose color" /><label > > for="id2">blue</label></li> > > > > <li><input class="buttons" name="colors[]" id="id3" > > type="checkbox" value="3" title="chose color" /><label > > for="id3">green</label></li> > > <li><input class="buttons" name="colors[]" id="id4" > > type="checkbox" value="4" title="chose color" /><label > > for="id4">yellow</label></li> > > </ul> > > > > <fieldset class="nolegend"> > > <input type="submit" value="change colors" > > name="aendern" /> > > <input type="submit" value="save colors" > > name="speichern" /> > > </fieldset> > > </form> > > </body> > > </html> > > > > Output for $_POST, if you just click on "change colors": > > Post: array(1) { ["aendern"]=> string(34) "change > colorsaendern=change > > colors" } > > > > > > Output, if you check only "red" and click "change colors": > > Post: array(2) { ["colors"]=> array(1) { [0]=> string(1) "1" } > > ["aendern"]=> string(13) "change colors" } > > > > output for 2 colors checked: > > Post: array(2) { ["colors"]=> array(3) { [0]=> string(1) "1" [1]=> > > string(1) "2" [2]=> string(1) "2" } ["aendern"]=> string(13) "change > > colors" } > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > >
