checkbox ticked description?

[neeep]

If two inverted commas means nothing has been entered in a field, how would I say, a checkbox has not been ticked?

 

$error = ' ';

[Buddski]

If a checkbox is NOT ticked it will NOT be posted with the form.

so

if (isset($_POST['checkbox'])) {
echo 'It was ticked';
} else {
echo 'It wasnt ticked';
}

should give the desired result.. if you form method is post that is

 

[neeep]

Thanks, That helped

 

Now I need to say,

 

"If one of these two checkboxes were not ticked, give this alert."

 

 

The following code means "If forname or surname were not ticked, give this alert for each instance"

 

 

$emailMessage .= "\nforename: " . $_POST['foreName'];

$emailMessage .= "\nsurname: " . $_POST['surName'];

 

 

 

$error = '';

 

    if (!$surName)

    $error = $error."<b>Surname</b><br />";

    if (!$foreName)

    $error = $error."<b>Forename</b><br />";

   

    if ($error!="")

echo "<span id='red'><font size='2'>Please fill out the following required fields:</font><br />$error</span>";

 

 

The following are my checkboxes

 

$emailMessage .= "\n7day: " . (isset($_POST['7day']));

$emailMessage .= "\nexamonly: " . (isset($_POST['examonly']));

 

I need to make sure the user ticks at least one. If they tick none, I need an alert saying Please tick one of the boxes.

 

Can you help me with this?

 

[neeep]

sorry, forename and surname are input fields! They all work fine. Im just showing you how my file is set up.

[Buddski]

for your checkboxes you need something like this..

 

<?php 
if (!isset($_POST['7day']) || !isset($_POST['examonly'])) {
// do your error stuff and tell them to choose one..
} else {
// now you need to figure out which one they clicked..
if (isset($_POST['7day'])) {
// 7 day was selected
} else {
//exam only was selected
}
}

 

now this isnt a perfect example but you get the idea..

[neeep]

Hi, Thanks, the error stuff is working, but once I then click one of the boxes the error message remains and i dont move on..

 

 

    if (!isset($_POST['7day']) || !isset($_POST['examonly']))

    echo "<span id='red'><font size='2'>Pick a course:</font><br />$error</span>";

    else

  {

//SUBMIT & REDIRECT

mail( "[email protected]", "Subject: $emailSubject", $emailMessage, "From: $Email" );

header("Location: thankyou.html");

}

 

 

Can you tell why it's not moving on?

 

It moves on to the email stage for the error messages which apply to one field not being filled in, so I know the submit and redirect is fine...

Any ideas on the checkbox thing?

[Buddski]

My bad..

replace the || with && in the if statement...

[neeep]

Perfect! thanks! This is my first time using php so sorry about the clulessness of syntax..