checkboxes

[Anon]

Hi I have a form for companies to fill out. Amongst other things, I have 18 checkboxes for different areas of service.

I have called them prog_focus, prog_focus1 etc etc and the value would be Primary Education, Secondary Education etc etc.

I would like to be able to fill in a '.' or soemthing in the db fields of the checkboxes not selected. How can I do that ?

thanks
Gianni

[Anon]

You will run into a little problem there... checkboxes not selected will NOT be "visible" on the receiving page.

A quick n dirty way from this is to generate
hiddenfields just before the real checkboxes.

<input type='hidden' name='cbo1' value='off'>
<input type='checkbox' name='cbo1' value='on'>

This technique uses the fact that if the checkbox is selected, it overwrites value set by the hidden field, otherwise, it still follow to the next page with a defaultvalue you choose.

However, I don't know if you are guarantied to receive all fields in "order" in all versions of browsers or whatever this technique depends on.

/ Ronnie

[Anon]

I'll try that

thanks a lot

[Anon]

In php:

if ($your_checkbox_var=="")
{
$your_checkbox_var=".";
};

and so on for every checkboxname you have in your form.

[Anon]

Sorry to sound so stupud but, where would I put that ? in the page that inserts the data in the db ?

[Anon]

Just before you insert the data into the database.

Actually you can put it anywhere before you insert into the database,
but just before is better because it is something that is very closely related to inserting the data into the database.