multi checkboxes

[jacko310592]

hey guys,

 

 

on my site i have a comments section, as an admin feature i want to be able to delete comments via a checkbox beside each comment.

 

so at the moment, i have:

<input type="checkbox" name="delete" value="2">    //2 == comment number

 

<?php $checkDelete = $_POST['delete']; ?>  //gets value of 'delete'

but the problem with this is that if i have multiple check boxes checked, $checkDelete will only be the last value it finds, whereas i  need it to retreve all the checkbox values.

 

 

can anyone think of a way this could be done

thanks

[wildteen88]

Name you check boxes as delete[]

<input type="checkbox" name="delete[]" value="2">

 

This will make the $_POST['delete'] variable hold an array of selected checkboxes.

 

Now use the following code to delete the comments that are selected

if(is_array($_POST['delete']))
{
    $ids = implode(',', $_POST['delete']);

     $sql = 'DELETE FROM comments_table WHERE id IN('.$ids.')';
     mysql_query($sql);
}

[jacko310592]

thanks wildteen88, that helped fantastically (: