Re: form question

On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Monte Ohrt wrote: > > Martin, > > I've run into this problem many times myself. > > I'm sure there are methods or hacks to achieve what you are asking, but > I usually try to figure out a better way to create my form so that it is > easier to parse, like making the form variable names consistant and > making the values dynamic, or putting hidden values along side of form > elements to track corresponding data. > > What does your form elements consist of exactly? <form action="../informix/index.php" method="post"> <? $conn_id=ifx_pconnect("diario","ifx_user","Passssss"); $no_leidos_id=ifx_query("SELECT a_id,a_diario,a_titulo,a_fecha,a_usuario, a_lectura FROM articulo WHERE a_lectura=0",$conn_id); $fila_art=ifx_fetch_row($no_leidos_id,"NEXT"); while (is_array($fila_art)){ echo "<tr> \n"; echo "<td>"; echo(sprintf("<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"%s\" checked>", $fila_art[a_id]); echo "</td>"; reset($fila_art); for (next($fila_art);$col=key($fila_art);next($fila_art)){ if ($col!="a_lectura") { echo "<td>\n"; echo(sprintf("%s \n",$fila_art[$col])); echo "</td>\n"; } } echo "</tr> \n"; $fila_art=ifx_fetch_row($no_leidos_id,"NEXT"); } ?> <br> <input name="actualizacion" type="sumit" value="Actualizar"> </form> Something like this. As you can see, the values of the names of the checkboxes are numbres (the numbre id of an article), which I need to now later which ones where checked and which ones where not. Any idea? -- "And I'm happy, because you make me feel good, about me." - Melvin Udall ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martín Marqués email: martin@math.unl.edu.ar Santa Fe - Argentina http://math.unl.edu.ar/~martin/ Administrador de sistemas en math.unl.edu.ar -----------------------------------------------------------------