Re: Using PHP to get user input via checkbox through a data base

Thank you Jim...this is helpful. I will try this when I get home. Wil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Moseby" <JMoseby@nrbindustries.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 4:03 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Using PHP to get user input via checkbox through a data base

Hello everyone, What I want to do is have a form (which is already created) where the user selects (via checkbox) on an item or group of items (almost like a shopping cart). These items are stored in a MySql database and the program was written in PHP. So far I have created an insert form that inserts the products into a database. The database is displayed in a form where the user now needs to click on the select box so that he/she can choose their items. Once they have chosen the items a confirmation page is supposed to come out with the user's choices and the user will confirm that this is correct or not and either click submit or go back to choose again. If they click submit than I am supposed to receive an email with all of the user's choices. The part I am still stuck in is when the user attempts to choose, nothing really happens. Following is the code that displays the database and allows the user to choose via the check box....Any help would be appreciated. <?php require_once('Connections/connBlog.php'); ?> <?php mysql_select_db($database_connBlog, $connBlog); $query_Recordset1 = "SELECT * FROM ebay_products"; $Recordset1 = mysql_query($query_Recordset1, $connBlog) or die(mysql_error()); $row_Recordset1 = mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordset1); $totalRows_Recordset1 = mysql_num_rows($Recordset1); ?> <?php require_once('Connections/connBlog.php'); ?> <html> <head> <title>Untitled Document</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body> <div align="center"> <p>&nbsp;</p> <form action="" method="post" name="form1">

    <table width="75%" height="10%" border="10"

align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#99FFCC">

      <tr>
        <td><div align="center">Description of Product</div></td>
        <td><div align="center">Coupon Amount</div></td>
        <td><div align="center">Expiration Date</div></td>
        <td><div align="center">Your Selection</div></td>
      </tr>
      <?php do { ?>
      <tr>
        <td width="65%">
          <div align="center"><?php echo

$row_Recordset1['product']; ?></div></td>

        <td width="8%">
          <div align="center">$<?php echo

$row_Recordset1['discount']; ?></div></td>

        <td width="15%">
          <div align="center"><?php echo

$row_Recordset1['expire']; ?></div></td>

        <td width="2%">
          <div align="center">
            <input name="select" type="checkbox" id="select"

value="checkbox">

          </div></td>
      </tr>
      <?php } while ($row_Recordset1 =

mysql_fetch_assoc($Recordset1)); ?>

    </table>
    <table width="25%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
      <tr>
        <td>

<div align="center">

            <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
          </div></td>
        <td>

<div align="center">

            <input name="back" type="button" id="back"

value="Go Back">

          </div></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>

</form> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <p align="center"> <a href="ebayinsert.php">Insert Data</a></p> </body> </html> <?php mysql_free_result($Recordset1); ?>

Problems I see right off the bat are: 1) your form tag has no action (action=""), therefore no action will be taken upon submit. 2) your checkboxes have no unique value, so even if your form WAS being submitted to some other page, you wouldn't be able to tell which ones were checked. To solve these problems, set your form action to the page that is to process the POST, then change this line:

            <input name="select" type="checkbox" id="select"

value="checkbox">

...to be something like

            <input name="select" type="checkbox" id="select"

value="<?php echo $row_Recordset1['product'];?>">

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