Great piece of advice Mike. Thanks. Far from obvious. I was stuck with this problem since a few days. Will that also apply to n-dimensional array, like: document.form["system[]"][0][1] ? Ignatius ____________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ford, Mike [LSS]" <M.Ford@lmu.ac.uk> To: "'Rich Gray'" <rich@f1central.net>; "NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI)" <sn4265@sbc.com>; <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 7:35 PM Subject: RE: HTML Forms question... > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rich Gray [mailto:rich@f1central.net] > > Sent: 20 November 2002 01:13 > > > > If you name the checkbox as name="system[]" then PHP will > > automatically > > create an array of the checkbox values which can be > > subsequently accessed > > via $_POST['system'][n] - be warned however that the '[]' can > > screw up any > > JavaScript code that refers to the checkbox object... > > G'rrrr -- not this old chestnut again! > > It only "screws up" your JavaScript if you don't write your JavaScript to > allow for it. > > It's really very simple: *by* *definition* in JavaScript, the notation > > a.b > > is *identical* to > > a["b"] > > Thus, if you have a single checkbox named with name="system", then you can > access it in either of these ways: > > document.form.system > document.form["system"] > > By extension, if you have multiple checkboxes all named with > name="system[]", you can refer to them as: > > document.form["system[]"][0] > document.form["system[]"][1] > document.form["system[]"][2] > > etc... > > I know this works because I've been using it for years (even before I > started programming with PHP!). > > Cheers! > > Mike > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mike Ford, Electronic Information Services Adviser, > Learning Support Services, Learning & Information Services, > JG125, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, > Beckett Park, LEEDS, LS6 3QS, United Kingdom > Email: m.ford@lmu.ac.uk > Tel: +44 113 283 2600 extn 4730 Fax: +44 113 283 3211 > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
