Check Boxes

From: Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:32:56 +0000
Subject: Check Boxes
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balwantsingh wrote: > can somebody advise me > i want to use checkboxes on my website, i want that if user selects some > checkboxes (there will be more than 20 checkboxes), checkbox's value will be > stored in variables and than SELECT query command will be run using these > variables through PHP. but my problem is that in SELECT query command after > each column name comma (,) is required and if i use the same than it is > displaying "You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'FROM form' at line > 1" i am using following coding $a1 = $_POST['ch1']; $a2 = $_POST['ch2']; $a3 = $_POST['ch3']; if ($a1 or $a2 or $a3) { $query = "SELECT $a1, $a2, $a3 FROM form"; $result=@mysql_query ($query); } Enter_Date<input type="checkbox" name="ch1" value="Enter_Date"> Opening_Units<input type="checkbox" name="ch2" value="Opening_Units"> Unit_Consumed<input type="checkbox" name="ch3" value="Unit_Consumed"> balwant

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