Re: checkboxes help ?

First off it might be easier you threw all of those into an array - like this: <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="boxes[]" VALUE="1"> Now for the other part if you have numbered them sequencially and you know the nam of the variable you can do this: <? for($i = 0 ; $i < $number_of_checkboxes ; ++$i){ $var = 'prog_focus'.$n; if(!isset($$var)){ $$var = '.'; } } ?> This uses the concept of variable variables. --Joe On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 11:26:09AM +0200, Gianni wrote: > Hi I have a form for companies to fill out. Amongst other things, I have 18 checkboxes for > different areas of service. > > I have called them prog_focus, prog_focus1 etc etc and the value would be Primary Education, > Secondary Education etc etc. > > I would like to be able to fill in a '.' or soemthing in the db fields of the > checkboxes not selected. How can I do that ? > > thanks > Gianni ================================================================================ = Joe Stump joestump98@yahoo.com http://www.miester.org = ================================================================================ "Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand."