PHP & Checkbox Count

[twome]

I have a huge FORM with mostly checkboxes. How can I get the number (count) of checkboxes per group. I'm guessing I would have to using something like count($_POST).

So how can I determine the number of checkboxes in the group "TypeN" and then for the group "relationN", etc.

For example:
<input name="Type1" type="checkbox" id="Type1" value="checked" />
<input name="Type2" type="checkbox" id="Type2" value="checked" />
<input name="Type3" type="checkbox" id="Type3" value="checked" />
<input name="Type4" type="checkbox" id="Type4" value="checked" />

<input name="relation1" type="checkbox" id="relation1" value="checked" />
<input name="relation2" type="checkbox" id="relation2" value="checked" />
<input name="relation3" type="checkbox" id="relation3" value="checked" />
<input name="relation4" type="checkbox" id="relation4" value="checked" />
<input name="relation5" type="checkbox" id="relation5" value="checked" />

[sasa]

[!--quoteo(post=366722:date=Apr 20 2006, 08:39 AM:name=twome)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(twome @ Apr 20 2006, 08:39 AM) [snapback]366722[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
I have a huge FORM with mostly checkboxes. How can I get the number (count) of checkboxes per group. I'm guessing I would have to using something like count($_POST).

So how can I determine the number of checkboxes in the group "TypeN" and then for the group "relationN", etc.

For example:
<input name="Type1" type="checkbox" id="Type1" value="checked" />
<input name="Type2" type="checkbox" id="Type2" value="checked" />
<input name="Type3" type="checkbox" id="Type3" value="checked" />
<input name="Type4" type="checkbox" id="Type4" value="checked" />

<input name="relation1" type="checkbox" id="relation1" value="checked" />
<input name="relation2" type="checkbox" id="relation2" value="checked" />
<input name="relation3" type="checkbox" id="relation3" value="checked" />
<input name="relation4" type="checkbox" id="relation4" value="checked" />
<input name="relation5" type="checkbox" id="relation5" value="checked" />
[/quote]
try[code]<form action="" method="POST">
Type <br />
<input name="Type[]" type="checkbox" id="Type1" value="1" />
<input name="Type[]" type="checkbox" id="Type2" value="2" />
<input name="Type[]" type="checkbox" id="Type3" value="3" />
<input name="Type[]" type="checkbox" id="Type4" value="4" />
<br />relation<br />
<input name="relation[]" type="checkbox" id="relation1" value="1" />
<input name="relation[]" type="checkbox" id="relation2" value="2" />
<input name="relation[]" type="checkbox" id="relation3" value="3" />
<input name="relation[]" type="checkbox" id="relation4" value="4" />
<input name="relation[]" type="checkbox" id="relation5" value="5" />
<br />
<input type="submit" name="submit">
</form>

<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])){
    echo "<pre>";
    print_r($_POST);
    echo "</pre>";
    $t = isset($_POST['Type']) ? count($_POST['Type']) : 0;
    $r = isset($_POST['relation']) ? count($_POST['relation']) : 0;
    echo "User select $t Type ";
        if ($t>0){
        echo "(";
        foreach ($_POST['Type'] as $a) echo "Type$a ";
        echo ") ";
    }
    echo "and $r relation checkbox.";
    if ($r>0){
        echo"(";
        foreach ($_POST['relation'] as $a) echo "relation$a ";
        echo ") ";
    }
    
}
?>[/code]

[twome]

Actually, I wanted to know not how many boxes the user selected, rather how many boxes there are in that group. (I have a loop that I go through - I need to know how many times to cycle through the loop depending on the number of checkboxes in that group).

For TypeN I would return a count of 4 checkboxes (total for that group TypeN).
And for relationN I would return 5 checkboxes (total in that group for relationN).

For example:
<input name="Type1" type="checkbox" id="Type1" value="checked" />
<input name="Type2" type="checkbox" id="Type2" value="checked" />
<input name="Type3" type="checkbox" id="Type3" value="checked" />
<input name="Type4" type="checkbox" id="Type4" value="checked" />

<input name="relation1" type="checkbox" id="relation1" value="checked" />
<input name="relation2" type="checkbox" id="relation2" value="checked" />
<input name="relation3" type="checkbox" id="relation3" value="checked" />
<input name="relation4" type="checkbox" id="relation4" value="checked" />
<input name="relation5" type="checkbox" id="relation5" value="checked" />

Although, I tried your code - works great!!! Thanks! I'll keep that in mind (what you wrote previously) for good reference in case I need it. (I probably will).

[kenrbnsn]

If you uses sasa's code for your form, all you have to do is use the count() on the returned arrays since only those check boxes that are actually checked are returned.

Ken

[twome]

Ken,
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "on the returned arrays". Could you clarify?

Thanks,
-Coby

[!--quoteo(post=367525:date=Apr 22 2006, 04:53 PM:name=kenrbnsn)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(kenrbnsn @ Apr 22 2006, 04:53 PM) [snapback]367525[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
If you uses sasa's code for your form, all you have to do is use the count() on the returned arrays since only those check boxes that are actually checked are returned.

Ken
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[Barand]

Use [a href=\"http://www.php.net/foreach\" target=\"_blank\"]foreach()[/a] then you don't need to know how many, you just loop thru however many there are.