Form sending checkbox not working

[gaz-boy]

Hello I am very new to php freaks but have been using it for many years to help me learn web development. I am struggling with some code that I hope you guys might be able to help me with. I want to send checkbox data from a form my email address.

 

Form

 

<form name="feedback-form" id="feedback-form" action="" method="post">
Name: <input name="name" type="text"  size="20" maxlength="30" class="required">
Email: <input name="email" type="text" size="20" maxlength="30" class="required">
Your favorite name?
<input type="checkbox" name="id[1]" value="1" /> Mike <br />
<input type="checkbox" name="id[2]" value="1" /> John <br />
<input type="checkbox" name="id[3]" value="1" /> George <br />
<input type="checkbox" name="id[4]" value="1" /> Jane <br />
<input type="checkbox" name="id[5]" value="1" /> Sarah <br />
</td></tr>

<input type="Submit" value="Send Message">
</form>

 

PHP

 

<?php 
if ($_POST["email"]<>'') { 

$ToEmail = 'EMAILADDRESS'; 
$EmailSubject = 'Video Feed Back'; 
$mailheader = "From: ".$_POST["email"]."\r\n"; 
$mailheader .= "Reply-To: ".$_POST["email"]."\r\n"; 
$mailheader .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

$MESSAGE_BODY = "".$_POST["name"]." posted some feedback on Light Move Image.   See The feedback below.<br>"; 

$MESSAGE_BODY .= "<b>Name:</b> ".$_POST["name"]."<br>";
$MESSAGE_BODY .= "<b>E-mail:</b> ".$_POST["email"]."<br>";
$MESSAGE_BODY .= "<b>Favourite Name:</b> ".$_POST["id"]."<br>";

mail($ToEmail, $EmailSubject, $MESSAGE_BODY, $mailheader) or die ("Failure"); 
?>

 

I have tried to change the checkbox to an array but it is still not working. Does anybody have any ideas?

[bluejay002]

The checkbox you created below will be treated in PHP as an array:

 

<input type="checkbox" name="id[1]" value="1" /> Mike <br />
<input type="checkbox" name="id[2]" value="1" /> John <br />
<input type="checkbox" name="id[3]" value="1" /> George <br />
<input type="checkbox" name="id[4]" value="1" /> Jane <br />
<input type="checkbox" name="id[5]" value="1" /> Sarah <br />

 

And using

$_POST["id"]

would return an array instance and not a value so you won't get any value from it.

 

Assign index to it or use loop to get the value from

$_POST["id"]

.

 

1. example using index:

$_POST["id"][0]

 

2. example using a loop:

foreach($_POST["id"] as $key => $value) { echo $key." -> ".$value; }

 

There's my two cents.

 

cheers,

 

bluejay