Re: Checkboxes, PHP, and MySQL

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:40:14AM -0500, SpyProductions Support Team wrote: > I've looked around in a few of the PHP lists for an answer to this, but > can't come up with one. On this question, you'd be better off just reading an HTML reference. It doesn't matter what the value of a checkbox is. If you want it to appear checked when the browser displays it, you should supply a "checked" attribute: <input type="checkbox" name="firstvalue" value="$result[32]" checked> > > Here's what I am doing: > > I have a form with a few checkboxes. > > When the information as to whether the checkboxes are checked or not is > 'saved' into the MySQL table, they are represented by a value of '1' - > fine. > > When I want to edit this information, in the form of a similar form with > checkboxes, the boxes are not checked off if they were before. > > What I am stuck on is how a checkbox can get checked off when pulling > information from the MySQL as an array. > > Here's a line of code showing my array coming out. > > <input type=checkbox name=firstvalue value='$result[32]'> > > $result is the array. > > I guess what I am asking is that if a checkbox is assigned a value of one, > why doesn't it appear as already checked off? > > Thanks, > > -Mike