Array from check boxes

[denoteone]

I am trying to create a page that you can select files on a server using check boxes. on submit it passes the values of the boxes checked as an array and then creates a zipped file from that array and mails is . This is my first time working with array's in PHP so i was hopping for some help.

 

My code so far

<form action="ZipNSend.php" method="post">
<input type="checkbox" value="fileOne.pdf"/>File number One
<input type="checkbox" value="fileTwo.pdf"/>File number Two
<input type="checkbox" value="fileThree.pdf"/>File number Three
</form>

 

Now i need for ZipNSend.php to take what ever values were checked and create an array out of them. this is were I am stuck... can anyone help me get started  or point me in the right direction?

 

Thanks

[p2grace]

Pass the actual input as an array

 

<form action="ZipNSend.php" method="post">
<input type="checkbox" name="files[]" value="fileOne.pdf"/>File number One
<input type="checkbox" name="files[]" value="fileTwo.pdf"/>File number Two
<input type="checkbox" name="files[]" value="fileThree.pdf"/>File number Three
</form>

 

when you grab the post variable it'll already be an array

[denoteone]

so to test the array it would look something like this?


code]
<?

$myArray = array($_POST['filename'];

print_r($myArray);

?>

[p2grace]

Test like this:

 

<?php
$arr = $_POST['files'];
print_r($arr);
?>

[denoteone]

so this zip.lib.php library that I found says all I have to do is pass the array and it will out put the zip file.

the value that I am passing in the form will be the path to the file on the server.

so my array might look like  (pdfs/fileOne.pdf, pdfs/fileTwo.pdf, pdfs/fileThree.pdfs

 

<?php
$arr = $_POST['files'];
include("zip.lib.php");
$ziper = new zipfile();
$ziper->addFiles($arr);  //array of files
$ziper->output("myzip.zip");
?>

 

so would that work?

[p2grace]

Theoretically yes

[denoteone]

 

Thanks  p2grace  you have been a lot of help. I will let you know how it turns out.

 

[denoteone]

Ok I am so close. the zip file named myzip.zip is getting sent via an attachment mail message. but when the email gets there is says that it is 900kbs but when I save and open it is not showing anything?

 

I check the server and the file is created and there?

 

Does anybody have an idea why this might be happening?

 

??? ??? ???