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

Jason Thanks for your help . I've implemented you advice. The problem persists in that I'm trying create the following situation: When the posted action php script runs I want the retrieved $_POST array to contain such information that the action script can find out what checkboxes were clicked and from there the library books to retrieve. So what do I need to write: 1. for the checkbox line in the driving script, e.g. type="checkbox" name="???" value ="ON" 2. in the action script, e.g. $result = $_POST[???]; Mike --- Jason Wong wrote:

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" >