Re: Do I need to worry about check boxes?

As I remember, the value is submitted only if the checkbox is checked. Are you sure your <form> tag has method="post" ?? El 25/05/16 a les 19:15, Jason Pruim ha escrit: > Hey Everyone, > > I have a form that I'm working on, and I'm adding some check boxes to it, > the check boxes display properly, and work as expected except... When I > submit the form, it shows that it's in $_POST['chkCom'] for instance, but > if i try and do a simple: > > $chkCom = $_POST['chkCom']; > > so I can work on some validation it won't work... Nothing is ever assigned > to it... Even though > > <?PHP var_dump($_POST['chkCom']); ?> > > shows the proper value... All I'm looking at doing is running like > HTMLentities on the check box and verifying if it was checked... > > I guess the biggest question comes down to do I need to worry about > sanitizing checkbox input? On this form it's just getting emailed into > another web based system that I'm not in control of (Online helpdesk > system). > > Any info you can give would be greatly appreciated! > > For anyone interested here are some basic snippets of code: > > <?PHP > > if (!empty($_POST['chkCom'])) { > > $chkCom = $_POST['chkCom']; > > echo "chkCom assigned"; > > }else{ > > $chkCom = "Not assigned"; > > } > > ?> > > > <ul> > > <li>Hardware</li> > > <ul> > > <li><input type="checkbox" name="chkCom" > value="Mac" checked /> > Mac Based</li> > > <li><input type="checkbox" name="chkiPad" > value="iPad" > checked> iPad</li> > > <li><input type="checkbox" name="chkMonitor" > value="Monitor"> External Monitor</li> > > <li>Wireless Mouse</li> > > <li>iPhone 6</li> > > <li>Verizon Wireless MIFI</li> > > <li>Color Multifunction laser printer</li> > > </ul> > > <li>Software</li> > > <ul> > > <li>Microsoft Office</li> > > <li>Dropbox</li> > > <li>Antivirus</li> > > </ul> > </ul> > <?PHP > > $emailFrom = <<<EMAIL > > -f ${manager} > > EMAIL; > > $headers = "X-Mailer: php/" . phpversion(); > > > $message ="Employee Name: " .$name. "\r\n"; > > $message .= "Department: " .$position. "\r\n"; > > $message .= "Manager: " .$manager. "\r\n"; > > $message .= "Where will they be working: " .$whereWorking. "\r\n"; > > $message .= "When will they start: " . $startDate. "\r\n"; > > $message .= $startDateErrorMessage; > > $message .= "Will they be in the office for training on their first > day? " .$training . "\r\n"; > > $message .= "Computer: " .$chkCom . "\r\n"; > > $message .= "iPad: " . $_POST['chkiPad'] . "\r\n"; > > $message .= "Shipping Address: " .$shippingAdd. "\r\n"; > > $message .= "Shipping City: " .$shippingCity. "\r\n"; > > $message .= "Shipping State: " .$shippingState. "\r\n"; > > $message .= "Shipping Zip: " .$shippingZip. "\r\n"; > > $message .= "Current Phone Number: " .$currentPhone . "\r\n"; > > $message .= "Notes: " .$notes . "\r\n"; > > $message .= $step; > > $message .= $transerFrom; > > > > mail($email, $subject, $message, $headers, $emailFrom); > > > ?> > > > Actual email output that I'm getting: > > Employee Name: Jason > Department: LES > Manager: My Email > Where will they be working: FromHome > When will they start: 6/31/16 > Will they be in the office for training on their first day? No > Computer: > iPad: iPad > Shipping Address: Address > Shipping City: City > Shipping State: State > Shipping Zip: Zip > Current Phone Number: Phone > Notes: NOTE NOTES NOTE > <ul> > <li>Hardware</li> > <ul> > <li><input type="checkbox" name="chkCom" > value="Mac" checked > /> Mac Based</li> > <li><input type="checkbox" name="chkiPad" > value="iPad" > checked> iPad</li> > <li><input type="checkbox" name="chkMonitor" > value="Monitor"> External Monitor</li> > <li>Wireless Mouse</li> > <li>iPhone 6</li> > <li>Verizon Wireless MIFI</li> > <li>Color Multifunction laser printer</li> > </ul> > <li>Software</li> > <ul> > <li>Microsoft Office</li> > <li>Dropbox</li> > <li>Antivirus</li> > </ul> > <li>Permissions</li> > <ul> > <li>Add to Appropriate sales list based on region</li> > <li>Add CRM access with "Sales" as the primary group</li> > <li>Add to ERM on salesman dashboard</li> > <li>Setup MyContrax Credentials</li> > </ul> > <li>Create User record in Active directory on domain controller</li> > <li>Create email account</li> > </ul> > > > > I did a lot of copy/paste so I may have missed a few things with it... all > the HTML is served in HEREDOC's inside the PHP files, I've broken those up > into the name form, validation, positions, style, etc and include them all > at the top. Other than this 1 issue with the check box it works perfectly! > > Thanks Everyone! >