Re: Help with POSTing variable array names from a PHP script please.

On Saturday 15 February 2003 17:05, Michael Eacott wrote: > <? php > > # Show details of BOOKS > > # Performing SQL query > > $query = "SELECT * FROM $books WHERE > title LIKE '$title' LIMIT 99"; > $result = mysql_query($query) or die("Query failed"); > > $count = 1; $bookslist = ""; > while ($rowarray = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) > { Your while loop is loop at the wrong place. Look at the HTML source of your page ... > $booksid = $rowarray["booksid"]; > $title = $rowarray["title"]; > print '<html>'; > print '<head>'; > print '<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" > content="en-us">'; > print '<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=windows-1252">'; [snip] ... these are all repeated for each book. Clearly that's not what you want. > print '<p>Click box get following book retrieved. Your loop should start here: > <input > type="checkbox" name="book[1][$booksid]" value ="ON" > ><br>'; You've setup a counter ($count) so make use of it: <input type="checkbox" name="book[$count][$booksid]" value ="ON" > -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* "Yo baby yo baby yo." -- Eddie Murphy */