Re: Couple of questions form a PHP newbie

1. Text file or DB My answer -> Learn how to use a database, it will make things much easier 2. Checkbox Try this: <input type="checkbox" name="sports[]" value="Baseball"> <input type="checkbox" name="sports[]" value="Basketball"> <input type="checkbox" name="sports[]" value="Football"> <input type="checkbox" name="sports[]" value="Handballball"> then after submission, you could do the dump, or foreach ($_POST["sports"] as $val) echo $val; On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 20:10, Jason Giangrande wrote: > First question: I'm creating a custom content manager for a small site. > It will basically be used to store short articles (several paragraphs > each). Now my question is, is storing these to a text file going to > work or am I going to have problems later on when the file gets to be a > reasonable size. I ask this, because the only way I can seem to work > with the text file is to read the entire file in and alter it that way. > Are there any ways to edit or remove one line of a text file without > having to read the entire file first? Would I be better off using a > database instead of a text file (keep in mind that I know nothing about > databases)? > > Question two: I've read in several books that html checkbox forms can > pass multiple values to the server when more than one check box is > selected if they have the same name. However, when I var_dump the > $_POST variable that should contain them I only get one value. Anyone > have any ideas why? > > Regards, > Jason Giangrande >