Re: PHP Post & forms

On Thursday 13 April 2006 8:44 pm, Stephen Johnson wrote: > On 4/13/06 7:40 PM, "Gary E. Terry" <terry@quickinet.net> wrote: > > Quite possibly a stupid question, but here goes. > > > > I have a form that is a list of jobs. On that list is a > > checkbox. The form field is named 'changedate'. > > > > I also have a hidden field called 'JobID'. > > > > What I am trying to accomplish is if a checkbox is > > checked, when the form is submitted, I want all of > > the JobID's to be updated by an SQL query. > > > > But it seems to me that $_POST will only contain > > the last JobID in the form, no matter what. Am I correct > > on this? > > > > Is what I am trying to accomplish not possible with a > > form post? > > > > I think I remember doing something similar with Cold Fusion > > years ago, but I have never attempted this with PHP. > > > > Any suggestions? > > You need to pass the checkboxes as an array value with the JobID as the > identifier. > > Then on the other side, you can run through the list of JobID's and see > which ones need to be updated. > If I'm understanding what you're asking, you have an array of checkboxes whose values you want passed to you PHP via the $_POST array. The HTML form syntax would be something like: <input type="checkbox" name="array[]" value="..." /> <input type="checkbox" name="array[]" value="..." /> <input type="checkbox" name="array[]" value="..." /> etc. Then in your PHP script, $_POST['array'] will hold an array of the checkbox values. HTH -- Joe Henry www.celebrityaccess.com jhenry@celebrityaccess.com