QuickForm: setting value for checkboxes?

Greetings. I am trying to set a the value for list of checkboxes. Each checkbox value is an id in a database. The user can select multiple checkboxes; thus, selecting multiple database ids. When the form is processed, I would like to retreive the list of ids selected by the user and do something with the list. I would like to set the value of each checkbox equal to the database id, but I have not been successful using QuickForm ($Id: QuickForm.php,v 1.27 2002/06/15 10:25:38 mansion Exp $) Here's what i tried: reset($collection); // an array of id = obj where obj is a mysql row while (list ($id, $obj) = each ($collection)) { $checkbox[] = &HTML_QuickForm::createElement('checkbox', "groupId[]", '', $obj->theme); } The code above produces this HTML: <input name="groupId[]" type="checkbox" value="1" />Open discussion What I want is the value attribute of the checkbox to be set equal to the $id read from $collection (an array). So, for example if the particular database id is 772, the HTML generated looks like this: <input name="groupId[]" type="checkbox" value="772" />Open discussion where the value equals the $id from the database. So, I set the third parameter to createElement to the $id variable: &HTML_QuickForm::createElement('checkbox', "groupId[]", $id, $obj->theme); Finally, I tried to set the HTML element array manually: &HTML_QuickForm::createElement('checkbox', "groupId[]", '', $obj->theme, "value=$id"); Both of produce the same HTML: <input name="groupId[]" type="checkbox" value="1" />Open discussion I appreciate any suggestions. -- Enable Your Information Age (c) http://mridanga.com/