RE: [PHP] PHP Post & forms

Sorry, should have posted lastnight.. Stephen Johnson helped out a lot, it's working great now. Thanks for the relpy though -----Original Message----- From: Joe Henry [mailto:jhenry@celebrityaccess.com] Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 11:44 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Cc: Stephen Johnson; Gary E. Terry Subject: Re: [PHP] 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php