Re: reading variables?

William Stokes wrote: > For each printed document there's a check box "Delete" for > marking that document for deletion. The document info from DB is printed > using 'while' loop. The only problem I have is that I don't know how to > handle/read the Delete checkbox values because the checkbox name is > different for each file. Checkboxes are printed whit this line:"echo "<td > colspan=\"5\"><input type=\"checkbox\" > name=\"del_$id\">Delete</td>";" Well, it is possible to look at all the fields which match the regular expression /del_[0-9]+/, but you would probably be better off just doing something like this: <input type='checkbox' name='del[]' value='$id' id='del_$id'> <label for='del_$id'>Delete</label></td> And then accessing the $_POST['del'][] array that PHP will represent that as. -- David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/> Home is where the ~/.bashrc is