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Form Checkboxes!!!

Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2003 11:49 pm
by Jade
Hey there,

I run an internet game (http://www.whiteoaks.idlegames.net) and in it my members have the option to buy clothing. Now I want to give my members the option to sell their clothing. I'm trying to accomplish this by selecting the clothing the members use and assigning the row the item is in the database to the value of the checkbox. Then what happens is I use a while loop to gather which checkboxes have been selected...only I'm having some problems with this. Any suggestions on how to pick up which checkboxes are being checked using php in a while loop? What i have so far is below:


Page 1

//get member's clothes

$number = 0;

//statement that selects clothing name using $number

?>
<tr>
<td height="18"></td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top"><font size=2>
<?php

while ($name != "")
{

?>
<tr>
<td height="18"></td>
<td colspan="2" valign="top"><font size=2>
<input type="checkbox" name="<?php echo "name$number"; ?>" value="<?php echo $number; ?>"><br></font></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<?php

$number++;

//statement that selects clothing name using $number

}

?>

Page 2 (when form is submitted)

while ($_POST['name'.$number] == $number)
{

//DO ALL CALCULATIONS HERE


//statement that selects clothing name using $number

echo "<font size=2>$name";

$number++;

if ($_POST['name'.$number] == "")
{
$number++;

if ($_POST['name'.$number] == "")
{
$number++;

if ($_POST['name'.$number] == "")
{
$number++;

if ($_POST['name'.$number] == "")
{
$number++;

if ($_POST['name'.$number] == "")
{
$number++;

if ($_POST['name'.$number] == "")
{
$number++;

if ($_POST['name'.$number] == "")
{
$number++;

if ($_POST['name'.$number] == "")
{
$number++;

if ($_POST['name'.$number] == "")
{
$number++;

if ($_POST['name'.$number] == "")
{
$number++;

if ($_POST['name'.$number] == "")
{
$number++;

if ($_POST['name'.$number] == "")
{
$number++;


}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}

I know this looks really bad!!! Can anyone help me!!!
Jade

Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 12:25 am
by volka
try this example

Code: Select all

<html><body>
previously selected:
<?php 
	if (isset($_POST['chk']))
	{
		// one method
		echo join(',', $_POST['chk']);
		
		// another method
		echo '<ul>';	
		foreach($_POST['chk'] as $c)
			echo '<li>', $c, '</li>';
		echo '</ul>';
		
		// many more ways
		// ...
	}
?>
<hr />
<form method="POST">
<?php
	for ($i=0; $i!=10; $i++)
		echo '<input type="checkbox" name="chk[]" value="',$i,'" />', $i, '<br />';
?>
<input type="submit" />
</form>
</body></html>

Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 2:18 pm
by Jade
Thanks billions! It works.