Noob Question ><

[nvrong]

I'm completely new to PHP, but not programming. I intend to learn PHP soon, perhaps in the summer. I'd like to know how  I would have say a blank HTML page except for 5 Checkboxs and a Submit button. Anyone who goes to this site can check or uncheck any number of checkboxs, and the next person to go onto that site will see the checkboxs that are already checked. For example...

They all start off blank:

[] [] [] [] [] [submit]

then person A checks off box 2,3, and 5, so it would appear like this:

[] [X] [X] [] [X] [submit]

The next person to visit the site, person B, sees all the boxes person A checked off, and perhaps unchecks, or checks a few of his own, which the next person to visit the site could see.

 

I have access to a mySQL database if that's needed, but i'd perfer if It was just in a flie like 'Checkboxs.txt'

 

Can anyone give me the code on how to do this, or point me towards some already written code?

 

Much appreciated,

Nvrong

[kevin7]

yes, you can do that... i don't have the time to write the code, but i can show you some guides...

the following show you how to retrieve checkbox value and print it out.

http://www.kirupa.com/web/php_contact_form3.htm

 

the follwoing show you how to read and write into file

http://www.gfx-depot.com/forum/-tutorial-index-t-1040.html

 

so, basically, what you can do is, get the value, and modify the value into something like this

0#0#1#0 <--- 0=unchecked, 1=checked, #= separator (can be anything, empty space for example)

 

so, you write that string to the file.

 

if you wanna load the checkboxes' setting, just read from the file and explode it

$chkbox = explode("#",$string);

$string is the value you read from the file.

 

so, you will able to set the value of the checkbox using if else statment or for loop...

 

hope it will help...