Re: Question: Checkboxes & Variables

use <input type="checkbox" name="foo[1]"> choice 1 <input type="checkbox" name="foo[2]"> choice 2 ... etc and you'll get the data in an global array called foo in your PHP script. nifty feature right? :> Convenient to use in loops. - cnb. On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Daniel Murillo wrote: > 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 > > > > -- Chandrashekhar Bhosle. Email: cnb@freeos.com Webmaster. ICQ : 7616948 FreeOS.com - The Resource Center for Free Operating Systems. ------------------------------------------------------------