Re: Anyone?

Website4S@aol.com writes: > Hi, > > I have a form that has a number of checkboxes under the title Languages, so > it`s a multiple selection thing. Is it possible to store them in a > varchar(50) named Lang > > At the moment I can only get the last one checked to be stored and any others > checked just dissapear somewhere. > > Anyone know whats going wrong? > > Ade The browser doesn't set variables for checkboxes which aren't checked. My favourite way around it is to set up an associative array of input name/value pairs (with all defaulting to empty) and run a function to automatically print out the checkboxes. Then when the form is submitted, you just loop over this array, checking each one against the submitted form variables; when you get a match, that checkbox is checked; otherwise, it's not. There are lots of code snippets around with functions to generate lists of checkboxes (or selects, or whatever) from arrays. I can't remember where right at the moment, but you could have a look at the code/tips sections on http://www.zend.com, http://px.sklar.com, etc. Good luck, Torben -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+