RE: [PHP] Processing checkboxes in Dynamic tables

instead of giving them unique names, put them all into a single array: <INPUT ... NAME="p[1]"> <INPUT ... NAME="p[2]"> or, to automatically number them: <INPUT ... NAME="p[]"> <INPUT ... NAME="p[]"> this way, you can deal only with $p[...] instead of $p101, $p202, $p203 > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Benbow [mailto:mikeyb@hn.ozemail.com.au] > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 5:02 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Processing checkboxes in Dynamic tables > > > I have a solution to my problem already, but I am looking for a far more > economical way of doing this. > > Currently my first page is four seperate tables with about 25 or so > entries in each. I have gone through and automatically allocated the name > p101 through p125 to the checkboxes for the first table, p201 through p225 > to the checkboxes for the second table, etc. > > The user makes selections from each table, but seldomly selects the > majority. They choose which lines they want processed then continue. > > My problem is that with the above solution there are automatically 200 > variables being passed from page to page, regardless of how many boxes are > checked. The average amount of boxes may be 10-15, and rarely is it more than 20. > > Currently my code looks like the following... > > $trade=101; > $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $table_name WHERE ......"); > > if ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { > > do { > > echo "<tr bgcolor=\"#CBCFFF\">\n"; > > echo "<td valign=\"top\" nowrap><font > size=\"-2\">"; > echo "<INPUT TYPE=\"CHECKBOX\" SELECT NAME=\"$p[$trade]\" > OPTION > VALUE=\"$row[playerid]\">"; > echo $trade; > echo "</td>\n"; > > ..... > $trade=$trade+1; > ..... > > } while..... > > etc. > > Could someone please help me so only the variables which are checked > before the submit button is pressed are parsed, eg p102, p107, p117, > rather than every input variable which is initialised on the site? > > Thank you heaps in advace, > Michael. >