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shamai

so i am making checkboxes like this.

<input type="checkbox" id="lawn" name="checkbox[]" value="Weekly Lawn Maintenance" checked="<?php echo (isset($checked['Weekly Lawn Maintenance'])) ? 'checked' : ' ' ?>"/>

and then on a process php page i did this:

$checkbox = $_POST['checkbox'];

i put $checkbox into a session variable and then i set it to $checked back on the contact page and it won't work?

help

i echo'd $checkbox[1] an it gave me 'array'

kobylecki

Why did you call this input 'checkbox[]'? Why not 'checkbox[Weekly Lawn Maintenance]'?

Secondly, better way of checking input is:

<?php
	 if (isset($checked[...]) && $checked[......]) 
	 	 echo 'checked="checked"';
?>

What is behind '$_SESSION' ?

Schmotty

I have done it like this before without any problems. How many checkboxes do you have?

shamai

i created an array called checkbook[].
i read that thats how its usually done.

i have 9 or 10 checkboxes

after i set

$checkbox = $_POST['checkbox'];

i send it back via $_session['returnData'] which held an array if things (name,email, etc...) and one of those things was an array of checkboxes.

and even if i try

(isset($checked['1']))

i don't work
its always true and the checkmark is always there

TT_Mark

I'm a little confused where you're getting $checked from as it's not part of your form....


<?php
	 foreach ( $_POST['checkbox'] as $checkbox => $value )
	 {
	 	 // Do what you need to do in here....
	 }

If you only have one checkbox on the page though, DON'T name it an array.

Schmotty

I have never used $_session, I was using the $_POST and getting it on submit. How are you submitting the form?

have you tried:



$check = $checkbox[1];
echo $check[1];

Then see what is in that array.

shamai

$checked was avariable i was using before but i got rid of it and tried making it a bit simpler but i can't get it work!?

ok
this is what i have on my process page after you press submit:

//form data
	$name = $_POST['name'];	
	$email = $_POST['email'];
	$phone = $_POST['phone'];
	$checkbox = $_POST['checkbox'];
	$message = $_POST['message'];

later on the process page i have this to send it back. (i have never had the php send it to itself I have always had it send to a process page. i never tried doing it the other way... instead I sometimes have ajax do the whole thing and send it to and from the process page)

$returndata = array(
		'posted_form_data' => array(
			'name' => $name,
			'email' => $email,
			'phone' => $phone,
			'message' => $message,
			'checkbox' => $checkbox), other stuff is here not in the array );

then i send this array back using a session

$_SESSION['cf_returndata'] = $returndata;

on the contact page I have $cf = $_SESSION['cf_returndata'].

so now it should be in $checkbox but when i then have this in the input of checkbox:

 <input type="checkbox" id="lawn" name="checkbox['Weekly Lawn Maintenance']" value="Weekly Lawn Maintenance" checked="<?php echo ($cf['posted_form_data']['checkbox']['Weekly Lawn Maintenance']) ? 'checked' : ' ' ?>"/>

i check echo $cf['posted_form_data']['checkbox'] agev back array.
and echo $cf['posted_form_data']['checkbox'][1] gave back an empty spot.

TT_Mark


var_dump( $cf['posted_form_data']['checkbox'] ) ;

Put this in your page and copy into the thread what it dumps out

shamai

lol

NULL

Schmotty

Try


<input type="checkbox" id="lawn" name="checkbox['Weekly Lawn Maintenance']" value="Weekly Lawn Maintenance" checked="<?php echo ($cf['posted_form_data']['checkbox'][0]) ? 'checked' : ' ' ?>"/>

xpy

@shamai A checkbox is considered "checked" if it has the attribute 'checked' independently of the value of the attribute. that means that

<input type="checkbox" checked/>

is consider checked, so you should do it like this

<input type="checkbox" id="lawn" name="checkbox['Weekly Lawn Maintenance']" value="Weekly Lawn Maintenance" <?php echo ($cf['posted_form_data']['checkbox'][0]) ? 'checked="checked"' : ' ' ?>/>

TT_Mark

How can it return NULL when you said that when you echo $cf['posted_form_data']['checkbox'] it returns Array?!

shamai

i don't know!?
its like it lost all its contents?

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