database search

Anon

Hi,
I am creating a database search engine that returns values. Each one should have a checkbox, allowing the user to check the ones s/he is interested in, and then use SUBMIT and get a page in return that has all details for each checked product.

Any help\'d be greatly appreciated.

Anon

Well first off you need to know that unchecked checkboxes don't get sent by the browsers. So you are going to have to deal with variables that don't exist.

I like to put my checkboxes into arrays in the form so that I don't have to do a bunch of isset() checks. Then I can just use a loop to walk through the array and act on each of the values that I find.

So in my called script all I need to do is:

for (reset($cb); $key = key($cb); next($cb)){
$value = $cb[$key];
// Do something baised on $value here
}

Now I don't need to worry about unchecked checkboxes.

Anon

Hi do you have a demo of u'r above example. I'm trying to create a search form using checklist where if u can check up two three items on a checklist and the result will be on a different page.
Thank you

Anon

I don't have anything prepared, all of my current code is held under an NDA so I can't share it. But you should be able to use the above example and build a simple demo out of it. Just build a form naming your checkboxes with the [] array operator then on the page that that form submits to build a little for loop like I had there to deal with the information in the checkboxes.