Question about dynamically creating a form

ok...so... I am creating a form using fields from a database. For one table, I select everything, loop through, and for each row, I create a checkbox where the name = primary key, the value = 1, and the label = whatever the name of the field is. It looks like this: <?$query = "SELECT * FROM list_serv_t WHERE retired_flag is NULL OR retired_flag = 0 ORDER BY list_serv_name"; $search_results = mysql_query($query) or die("Select Failed!"); ?> <?while ($search_result = mysql_fetch_array($search_results)) {?> <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="<? echo $search_result['list_serv_cd']; ?>" SIZE="20" MAXLENGTH="50" VALUE="1"> <? echo $search_result['list_serv_name'] ?> <BR> <?}?> Now, that works fine, but how do I get the value out of that so I can error check it or put it in the database? I tried re-creating the name by looping through the table again and making a new variable that contains the name like this: $var = "$"; $var .= $search_result['list_serv_cd']; echo $var; But when I try to test the value: if ($var == 1){ } Obviously, it won't work, because $var == "$22" or whatever the number happens to be. What's the best way to do this? Thanks, Amanda