help with mass delete from form

[Anon]

How can I select several items from a from and send them to loop query for deletion from the database.

The plan was to have a form with checkboxes for each id. These variables would go to the script with the deletion loop.

One of my many porblems is sending variables with the same name (id) and different values (1) or (2).

Any help would be a major blessing.
Thank you in advance.

[alastair]

If you set the checkbox names to 'somename[]' then each value that is checked will be entered into an array and posted to the action script.

You can then loop through each array element

[Anon]

first of all, thanks for the response.
I had tried this giving each variable the same name and then different values. My problem really started when i tried to run through the array with a delete in the loop.

Can you please supply an example or point me in the right direction.
thanks again.

[Anon]

I had a problem similar to this last week.
On the page with the form:
have your input fields be named some incrementing variable ex. itemX where X is 1 to whatever.

Then on the form processing page:
Use variable variables.
for($i=0; $i<=5; $i++)
{
//print
$item = "item$i"; //where $x is your incrementing number
print $$item."<br>";
}