Re: Dynamic check boxes...

"Jeff Lewis" <jeff@hyrum.net> wrote in message news:009201c12bff$de696af0$76a1a8c0@LEWISJCIT... > I have a form where users can enter a link > (kind of a free for al links type of thing) > When they add their site to the database > a 0 is added to the "approved" field. > > When I load an admin script I can check > all of the ones that have a 0 in that field. > I want to have checkboxes form down the > side of them so I can check the ones I want > approved. > > Is it possible to have them all update with the > click of one submit button? There are two obvious approaches to this: First, with JavaScript, you could write a 'select all' button, which checks all the checkboxes, then submits the form normally. Or, you could have a submission button that tells PHP to approve all listed items whether checked or not, ie <input type='submit' name='submit' value='Checked'> <input type='submit' name='submit' value='All'> The problem with this is that unchecked checkboxes simply don't appear when the form is submitted; you need some way to get a full list of the IDs in question. A quick fix I have found is as follows, for each option: <input type='hidden' name='cb307' value='No'> <input type='checkbox' name='cb307' value='Yes'> NOTE: the name is NOT an array, and the hidden field must come before the checkbox. This way, if the checkbox is not checked, the 'No' value comes through; otherwise it is over-written by 'Yes'. Another option would be to keep a comma-delimited list of IDs and write 'em all into a single hidden field, ie <input type='checkbox' name='cb305' value='Yes'> <input type='checkbox' name='cb306' value='Yes'> <input type='checkbox' name='cb307' value='Yes> <input type='hidden' name='idlist' value='305,306,307'> Hope this helps...