name="bool[0][careers]" might do what you want... it's really quite difficult to say without a concrete example... On Thu, June 8, 2006 10:20 am, Ben Liu wrote: > I probably should add some more details to my question: > > The names of the form checkboxes could be changed from ie: > bool_careers, bool_speaking, bool_internship, etc. to a single array > bool_questions[], for instance. The problem with that is that I am > using the form checkbox names later to process related data. > Specifically, I am building a user-input based query. So if the form > checkbox names are the same as the names of the variables in the > database, it makes for easy creating of the query, since the names > become associative keys in the $_POST array. I iterate through the > $_POST array, checking each for true/false state. If the checkbox is > checked, I add the associative key name to the query. Eliminating the > checkbox names in favor of a numerical key only would make this more > complicated. > > - Ben > > On 6/8/06, Barry <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 1. Use Keys in your form like a[1],a[2] >> 2. order the array by usort (alphabetically or whatever u prefer) >> >> that way => 2: yes it is. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php