help with form using php

[bagnallc]

Hi all,

i am trying to process a simple checkbox form within a while statement.
form works fine but im having trouble naming the range so that selections can be retrieved

code is

while($checkbox = mysql_fetch_array($qry))
{
echo "<input type='checkbox' name='$checkbox[field]'>" . " " . $checkbox[going] . "<br/>" ;
}

when i try and retrieve name value in page where form sends information i am having problems.

can you suggest how to name each checkbox - there could be any number of checkboxes from 1 to 500?

many thanks.

[klaroen]

don't realy understand the request :p

but:
shouldn't it be
$checkbox['field'] and $checkbox['going'] with the '' signs?

I guess so...

[Fyorl]

Normally you'd use name='blah[]' and then retrieve it using $_REQUEST['blah'] but since you're using a query, I would assume that's not what you want. My first suggestion would be to use _ instead of a space as a separator between your field and going values as that some values may have a tailing or leading space, causing problems when you try and explode() the values (of course, they might have trailing or leading underscores in which case use something silly like ===?^$;===). Also, checkboxes that have been checked will send as data but unchecked checkboxes will not send instead of having the value of false which would be expected. If you didn't know about this behaviour then that may be your problem.

[bagnallc]

managed to fix this now. many thanks for all your help

sorry for stupid question

[Fyorl]

[code]echo "<input type='checkbox' name='check[]' value='" . (isset($checkbox['field']) ? $checkbox['field'] : $checkbox['going']) . "' />";[/code]