RE: [PHP] Question: Checkboxes & Variables

Hello, IMHO PHP can pass a checkbox as an array variable. So the html codes below will pass an array of items to PHP that contains only checked values. <form action='...'> <table> <tr><td><input type='checkbox' name='items[]' value='ball'>ball</tr> <tr><td><input type='checkbox' name='items[]' value='shoe'>shoe</tr> <tr><td><input type='checkbox' name='items[]' value='hat'>hat</tr> <tr><td><input type='checkbox' name='items[]' value='hammer'>hammer</tr> .... .... </table> <input type='submit' value='send'> </form> I have no problem using this method to process more than 20 checkboxes. Regards, Purnomo -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Murillo [mailto:damurillo@amherst.edu] Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 5:07 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Question: Checkboxes & Variables I am trying to create a form with checkboxes where individuals can select as many checkboxes as they wish and get results depending on what they checked. (I.E., If a person selects a checkbox marked "ball" and a checkbox marked "spike" then the next page will display results that match either "ball" or "spike".) The problem is that I cannot give each individual checkbox its own specific name because then I would have to create a loop to see which variables have been given a value, which would be too time intensive since the number of checkboxes available would be around 20. Now, since every checkbox has the same name, with each clicking of a new checkbox it overwrites the previous value that was assigned to that variable (duh). I am wondering if there is a way to append the checkbox values to the variable or if there is possibly some easier way to do this that I am missing. thanks, Daniel Murillo damurillo@amherst.edu -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net