Form checkboxes and arrays (newb)

[souloyster]

Hi,

I've created a form with checkboxes in PHP and everything is sending fine except the word "array" appears at the beginning of the value display.  How can I get rid of this?

For example, the values for one checkbox group show up as:

ArrayWash Walls
Wash Windows
Clean Bathrooms
Clean Kitchen
Make Beds
Polish Silver
Wash Clothes
Wash Linens
Wash Dishes and Pans
Hand Wash Clothes
Iron Shirts
Iron Linens
Dust
Vacuum

[Psycho]

Need to see the code please.

[souloyster]

Ok, the code for the checkboxes in the form is:
...
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" class="main"><input name="hkduties[]" type="checkbox" value="Wash Walls">Wash Walls </td>
    <td class="main"><input name="hkduties[]" type="checkbox" value="Wash Windows">Wash Windows </td>
    <td class="main"><input name="hkduties[]" type="checkbox" value="Clean Bathrooms">Clean Bathrooms </td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" class="main"><input name="hkduties[]" type="checkbox" value="Clean Kitchen">Clean Kitchen </td>
    <td class="main"><input name="hkduties[]" type="checkbox" value="Make Beds">Make Beds </td>
    <td class="main"><input name="hkduties[]" type="checkbox" value="Polish Silver">Polish Silver </td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" class="main"><input name="hkduties[]" type="checkbox" value="Wash Clothes">Wash Clothes </td>
    <td class="main"><input name="hkduties[]" type="checkbox" value="Wash Linens">Wash Linens </td>
    <td class="main"><input name="hkduties[]" type="checkbox" value="Wash Dishes and Pans">Wash Dishes &amp; Pans </td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" class="main"><input name="hkduties[]" type="checkbox" value="Hand Wash Clothes">Hand Wash Clothes </td>
    <td class="main"><input name="hkduties[]" type="checkbox" value="Iron Shirts">Iron Shirts </td>
    <td class="main"><input name="hkduties[]" type="checkbox" value="Iron Linens">Iron Linens </td>
    </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2" class="main"><input name="hkduties[]" type="checkbox" value="Dust">Dust </td>
    <td class="main"><input name="hkduties[]" type="checkbox" value="Vacuum">Vacuum </td>
    <td class="main">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
...

The code for sending the data is:

foreach($_POST['hkduties'] as $hkdutiesvalues)  {
$hkduties .= "$hkdutiesvalues\n";
}

        $body = "HOUSEKEEPING: $hkduties";

[.josh]

that's because hkduties[] makes an array. Each one would be accessed like so:

$_POST['hkduties'][0]
$_POST['hkduties'][1]
$_POST['hkduties'][2]
.
.
.

[Psycho]

So, change your receiving page code to this:

[code]<?php
$body = "HOUSEKEEPING: ";
if (!isset($_POST['hkduties'])) {
    $body .= "None";
} else {
    foreach($_POST['hkduties'] as $hkdutiesvalues)  {
        $body .= $hkdutiesvalues . "\n";
    }
}
?>[/code]

[souloyster]

Thanks for the help guys, but still the same problem.  Something I probably should have mentioned is that the Housekeeping Duties get emailed with the other data in a plain text email.  It still gets displayed as:

HOUSEKEEPING:
ArrayWash Walls
Wash Windows
Clean Bathrooms
Clean Kitchen
Make Beds
Polish Silver
Wash Clothes
Wash Linens
Wash Dishes and Pans
Hand Wash Clothes
Iron Shirts
Iron Linens

[Psycho]

Hmm... perhaps "array" is inthe aray as an actual value. Try doing this for debugging purposes:

echo "<pre>";
print_r($_POST['hkduties']);
echo "</pre>";

And post back the results here.

[souloyster]

Here's the results:

Array ( [0] => Wash Walls [1] => Wash Windows [2] => Clean Bathrooms [3] => Clean Kitchen [4] => Make Beds [5] => Polish Silver [6] => Wash Clothes [7] => Wash Linens [8] => Wash Dishes and Pans [9] => Hand Wash Clothes [10] => Iron Shirts [11] => Iron Linens )

[Psycho]

Oops, forgot to put the code within tags and some was consumed by the forum. No matter you got the results I was looking for. I see no reason why you would be getting the text "array" in your output. Could you post the code you are currently working with that builds that copy.