check box help :php

@gazzamcJul 22.2010

ok i got a number of check boxes and it works fine with one checked but if i check a multiple i only get the last check box….

[CODE] <div id=”formNumber1″ style=”display:none;”> <input type=”checkbox” name=”checkbox” value=”yt”>Youtube<br /> Url 1: <input type=”text” name=”yurl”><br /> Url 2: <input type=”text” name=”yurl1″><br /> Url 3: <input type=”text” name=”yurl2″><br /> </div>

<div id=”formNumber2″ style=”display:none;”> <input type=”checkbox” name=”checkbox” value=”my”>Myspace<br /> Url 1: <input type=”text” name=”murl”><br /> Url 2: <input type=”text” name=”murl1″><br /> Url 3: <input type=”text” name=”murl2″><br /> </div> [/CODE]

if i check “Youtube” i get yt but if i check both “Youtube” & “Myspace” i get only “my”.

php side

[CODE] $type=$_POST[‘checkbox’];

after that i have a few if statements…. [/CODE]

I also want to ask about mysql… see i want php to create a page when the user has filled out the form (which i have achieved) but i want the page to have a player code in it with the the playlist (which will also be created by php) that will have links to their videos in it…

example :

[CODE] <script type=’text/javascript’ src=’player/swfobject.js’></script>

<div id=’mediaspace’>This text will be replaced</div>

<script type=’text/javascript’ src=’player/swfobject.js’></script> [/CODE]

i want to replace the playlist location with the playlist the user created….

how can i do this in mysql.. and how do i extract the right playlist from the database as the user will not be logged in… or can i do it without a database?

sorry for the long post… any help appreciated.

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@tirnaJul 22.2010 — #if you have multiple checkboxes with the same name, you need to send them to the server as an array.

[CODE] 
 <input type="checkbox" name="myChkBox[COLOR=red][][/COLOR]" value="yt" />
 <input type="checkbox" name="myChkBox[COLOR=red][][/COLOR]" value="my" />
 [/CODE]

and then on the server

[CODE]$myChkBoxes = $_POST['myChkBox'];[/CODE]

$myChkBoxes will be an array of all the values from the checked checkboxes.

@gazzamcauthorJul 23.2010 — #if you have multiple checkboxes with the same name, you need to send them to the server as an array.

[CODE] 
 <input type="checkbox" name="myChkBox[COLOR=red][][/COLOR]" value="yt" />
 <input type="checkbox" name="myChkBox[COLOR=red][][/COLOR]" value="my" />
 [/CODE]

and then on the server

[CODE]$myChkBoxes = $_POST['myChkBox'];[/CODE]

$myChkBoxes will be an array of all the values from the checked checkboxes.[/QUOTE]
tnx i'll try that..

@tirnaJul 23.2010 — #you're welcome - happy to help ?

@gazzamcauthorJul 23.2010 — #you're welcome - happy to help ?[/QUOTE]

ok i gave it a try....

i echoed out $myChkBoxes and all i got was array not 'yt' or 'my' ...

i copied your code exactly..

@tirnaJul 23.2010 — #with $myChkBoxes in the php script being an array I hope you use a FOR or FOREACH loop to echo the elements in the array and not:

echo $myChkBoxes;

@gazzamcauthorJul 23.2010 — #with $myChkBoxes in the php script being an array I hope you use a FOR or FOREACH loop to echo the elements in the array and not:

echo $myChkBoxes;[/QUOTE]

no i didn't use FOR or FOREACH loop , i'm a total newb at php lol

@tirnaJul 23.2010 — #

[code=php] 
 <?php 
 
 foreach($myChkBoxes as $value)  {
 echo $value.'<br />'; 
 }
 
 die();
 
 ?>
 [/code]

@gazzamcauthorJul 23.2010 — #

[code=php] 
 <?php 
 
 foreach($myChkBoxes as $value)  {
 echo $value.'<br />'; 
 }
 
 die();
 
 ?>
 [/code]

[/QUOTE]

it worked.. tnx.. sorry for the trouble...

@tirnaJul 23.2010 — #no problem - happy to help ?

@gazzamcauthorJul 23.2010 — #no problem - happy to help ?[/QUOTE]

sorry to trouble you again but i have the same prob as before... only the last checked shows...

@tirnaJul 23.2010 — #If you can, post your current html and php code in the next few minutes as I will have to go after that.

If you have the square brackets [] after the name in each checkbox as I posted earlier then it should work unless there is something else going in your code.

@gazzamcauthorJul 23.2010 — #If you can, post your current html and php code in the next few minutes as I will have to go after that.

If you have the square brackets [] after the name in each checkbox as I posted earlier then it should work unless there is something else going in your code.[/QUOTE]

sorry about this it looks like i made a typo mistake..

<i>
 </i>$myChkBoxes = $_POST['myChkBox'];
 
 
 
 foreach($myChkBoxes as $value)  {
 echo $value.'&lt;br /&gt;'; die();
 }

i had something like above... it's all good now.. thanks very much for your help.

@tirnaJul 23.2010 — #This test code works on my local server so I assume there must be something else going on somewhere in your code but I can't see it at the moment.

I removed the display: none styles you have on those 2 divs.

I'll have another look tomorrow.

[CODE] 
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "[URL]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd[/URL]">
 <html xmlns="[URL]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml[/URL]">
 <head>
 <title></title>
 </head>
 <body>
 
 <form action="test.php" method="post" />
 <div id="formNumber1">
 <input type="checkbox" name="myChkBox[]" value="yt" />Youtube<br />
 Url 1: <input type="text" name="yurl"><br />
 Url 2: <input type="text" name="yurl1"><br />
 Url 3: <input type="text" name="yurl2"><br />
 </div>
 
 <div id="formNumber2">
 <input type="checkbox" name="myChkBox[]" value="my" />Myspace<br />
 Url 1: <input type="text" name="murl"><br />
 Url 2: <input type="text" name="murl1"><br />
 Url 3: <input type="text" name="murl2"><br />
 </div>
 
 <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
 
 </form>
 
 </body>
 </html>
 [/CODE]

and the php

[CODE] 
 <?php 

 $myChkBoxes = $_POST['myChkBox'];
 foreach($myChkBoxes as $value)  {
 echo $value.'<br />';
 }
 die();
 
 ?>
 [/CODE]

outputs yt and my when I click both checkboxes and submit the form.

@tirnaJul 23.2010 — #it's all good now.. thanks very much for your help.[/quote]

No problem - I'm glad you sorted it out in the end - I can sleep easy now :eek:

Good night ?

@gazzamcauthorJul 23.2010 — #No problem - I'm glad you sorted it out in the end - I can sleep easy now :eek:

Good night ?[/QUOTE]

no problem goodnight..

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