[SOLVED] Array Issues processing forms with multiple radio button groups

[mo]

I am receiving error "Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in ....".

 

I have a web form with several groups of radio buttons and checkboxes which are all dynamically created based on MySQl entries. When a user submits the form, I go through a series of checks. For checkboxes I check if a users only selected less than the max amount of boxes.

 

All my logic workes fine when I just have one group of checkboxes but when I have multiple groups of checkboxes, I need the attributes of said group in order to determine if the group is a group of check boxes or radio buttons or if the group has a max box selection setting and if so how many boxes can be selected.

 

To paint a clear picture in regards to the groups of boxes. Lets take a website like pizzahut and let's say we're ordering a pizza and we're presented a window with a box that has meat toppings and a box that has vegetable toppings. The system only lets you choose 2 toppings from the meat list and 3 from the vegetable list.

 

This is similiar to my situation. I build a form dynamically and than during processing of the form I need to check for the selected boxes and and make sure not more than the max amounts were selected.

 

Snippet of code used to build the boxes:

 

<form ...>

...

 

while($ArrayRow = mysql_fetch_array($sqlStr)) {

...

 

 

//Build array of option attributes

$OptAttrArray =

array( array($strOptId,$strPrice,$strIsOption,$strBtype,$strMaxOptions) );

 

 

if($strBtype == 'RADIO'){

//Format radio buttons

echo "<tr><td class=\"dataListItem\">

<input type=\"radio\" name=\"itemoption[]\" value=\"$OptAttrArray\"></td>

<td class=\"dataListItem\">$strDesc</td>

<td class=\"dataListItem\">$strPrice</td></tr>";

}else{

//Format checkboxes

echo "<tr><td class=\"dataListItem\"><input name=\"itemoption[]\" type=\"checkbox\" value=\"$OptAttrArray\"></td>

<tdclass=\"dataListItem\">$strDesc</td>

<tdclass=\"dataListItem\">$strPrice</td></tr>";

}//ENDIF CHECK BUTTON TYPE

}//End While

 

blah, blah, blah.....

 

</form>

 

My issue I think is that I create an array (itemoption[]) for the input field which holds all the buttons on the screen. The value for each button is another array that holds the attributes ($OptAttrArray).

 

During form processing when the user clicks submit, I do the following.

 

foreach($_POST['itemoption'] as $val => $value) {

//Seperate value sub array into attribute fields

$strOptId      = $value[0][0];

$strPrice      = $value[0][1];

$strIsOption  = $value[0][2];

$strBtype      = $value[0][3];

$strMaxOptions = $value[0][4];

 

....

}

 

This is where I receive the error "Fatal error: Cannot use string offset as an array in ....".

[mo]

I resolved the issue.