Javascript... What's that??? Just kidding. I know what it is, but that is about the extent of my knowledge. Thanks for all the great feedback. I was actually just looking to be pointed in the right direction as this was a bit outside the scope of this group. You guys come through in shining fashion though and solve the problem for me. Now just to figure out the next 73 issues/steps/challenges/problems. :) -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Jameson (USA) [mailto:RJameson@usa.ibs.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 11:44 AM To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: RE: HTML Forms question... You learn something new every day! I'll have to remember the [] thing. My way of handling this situation that does not screw up JavaScript is to assign the names sequentially, so instead of all the checkboxes being system they would be system0,system1,... Since PHP is so wonderfully easy to use for referencing variable variable names I simply loop through: for($i=0;$i<NUMBEROFCHECKBOXES;$i++){ $var = "system$i"; $val = $$var; if (isset($$var)) //<--- I think this works. echo "$var = $val<br>"; else echo "$var is not checked."; } Since I always end up creating the form in PHP I just have the algorithm put a hidden field in the form that contains the number of checkboxes, in fact my PHP usually creates the JavaScript code as well, so it ends up being pretty flexible. <>< Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Rich Gray [mailto:rich@f1central.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 6:13 PM To: NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI); php-db@lists.php.net Subject: RE: HTML Forms question... 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... HTH Rich -----Original Message----- From: NIPP, SCOTT V (SBCSI) [mailto:sn4265@sbc.com] Sent: 19 November 2002 08:53 To: 'Ryan Jameson (USA)'; php-db@lists.php.net Subject: RE: HTML Forms question... OK. If I am using the POST method and the checkbox 'name' for all of the checkboxes is 'system', how do I access the results? I am researching on the PHP site trying to figure out what this array is, and how I access this if the index name is the same for all elements. I am hoping that this data will be in an array and I can simply loop through the contents of the array. If this data is stored in a hash (Perl word for this type of array, not sure if it's the same in PHP), how do I access this data since the index for every element would be the same? I am SURE that I am probably missing some important conceptual issues here, but still learning as I go. Unfortunately, this probably means that I will be completely rewriting this application at least once in the future. Oh well, live and learn. Thanks again for the help. -- 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 -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
