chastro

Hi there, a little stumped on a form I am making for work... on the first viewing of the page, $action is not set. (The form submits to itself) when this is shown in the page, a list of checkboxes along side the employees' name is shown like so... i.e. [] Bob [] Jim [] Mary [] Sara [] Tim ...then the user is to make his/her selections of these employees, and click submit, this time with the action $final_confirm. When the page now runs through, i need it to make the same list of employees, however if they had selected an employee before, it needs to be checked. i.e. [X] Bob [] Jim [X] Mary [X] Sara [] Tim My problem is that I've gotten it to populate the check boxes on submit, but if I select three names, it returns this: [X] Bob [] Bob [] Bob [] Jim [] Jim [] Jim [X] Mary [] Mary [] Mary [X] Sara [] Sara [] Sara [] Tim [] Tim [] Tim if I select two names, it does the same thing, just with two lines each... <?php //$sql = "SELECT bla bla bla..." //$result = mysql_query bla bla bla... while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $id = $row['id']; $employee_name = $row['name']; if ($action == "final_confirm"){ if (isset($employee)){ foreach ($employee as $employee_selected) { if($employee_selected == $id){ echo "<INPUT TYPE=\"CHECKBOX\" NAME=\"employee[]\" VALUE=\"$id\" CHECKED>$employee_name<BR>\n"; } else { echo "<INPUT TYPE=\"CHECKBOX\" NAME=\"employee[]\" VALUE=\"$id\">$employee_name<BR>\n"; } } } } else { echo "<INPUT TYPE=\"CHECKBOX\" NAME=\"employee[]\" VALUE=\"$id\">$employee_name<BR>\n"; } } ?> In theory I see why the error is happening, I just dont see any other way to do this. I'm sure the answer is right in front of me or I just need to reorganize something, but I've been trying to do this for 5 hours and reading the foreach documentation on php.net isnt helping. Any help is appreciated.