Re: form question

Ok, so would this work for you? echo(sprintf("<input type=\"checkbox\" name=fila_art[] value=\"%s\" checked>", $fila_art[a_id]); Then you could just traverse the fila_art[] array in your php script. "Martin A. Marques" wrote: > > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net> http://www.ispi.net/