> ><form name="form1" method="post" action=""> ><table border="0" align="center"> > <?php do { > $sys = $system['Name']; > if ($cnt == 1) { > $cnt = 2; > echo "<tr>"; ?> > <td width="161"><input name="$sys" type="checkbox" value="name"> > <?php echo $sys; ?></td> Your input box should be the following: ><input name="sys" type="checkbox" value="name"> The $ isn't necessary in the HTML code since HTML doesn't really recognize this as a variable. When the form is passed to the action page, the code in the action page (in this case PHP) creates a variable named whatever the name attribute in the HTML code holds - in this case sys. -Lisi -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php