Form with many options

[riscphree]

I'm running into a logic problem here. What I'm doing is generating a list of items to be approved, and then have a checkbox in the form when submitted will approve the item and move it to another database table.

My form looks something like this:

Item ID   |  Item Desc  | Item Num  |  checkbox

for my checkbox, I'm using this:

<input type="checkbox" value="y" name="{$row['item_id'}">

When I submit the form, how can I go through all the submitted results and verify that they were checked? I know how to grab values with php submitted forms, but I've only done simple text input.

 

[Daniel]

If it is a checkbox with

value="y"

and name is (this is an example name, it would be your output from $row...

name="rowitem"

You could check if they are checked by doing.

if(isset($_POST['rowitem']) && $_POST['rowitem'] == "y") { The box is checked } else { the box is not checked }

Remember if you're testing out form submissions and the like,

print_r $_REQUEST;

can be really useful.

I hope I understood you right...

Dan

 

[CreedFeed]

If you name all of your checkboxes as an array, you'll be able to access them as an array in your PHP code. So for example:

<input type="checkbox" value="y" name="checkbox[yournamehere]" />

You can then do:

foreach ($_POST['checkbox'] as $field)
{
    // $field will be the 'yournamehere' part
}