array form value?

Anon

Hello Everyone.

I have a form. What I'm trying to do is have a list of names, and beside each name is a check box. You would then check the box next to each persons name that you would like to email. My problem is getting from the form which boxes are checked.

Is it possible to make this:
<INPUT TYPE='CHECKBOX' name='sendEmail' value='1' checked>
somehow be an array - so something like :
$i=0;
while(...){
<INPUT TYPE='CHECKBOX' name='sendEmail[$i]' value='1' checked>
$i++;
}

And then use the sendEmail Array later to get the values?
$value1=$sendEmail[0];

I don't know if that made sense but if anyone knows a way to do this please let me know. Any help is greatly apreciated.

Thank you.

amcgrath

yes, i'd make the name sendEmail[$i] where $i is the unique identifier of the email recipient and then loop through $sendEmail....

Anon

So would that make it an array or just a variable called sendEmail[$i].

I got it to work if I make it like this:
<INPUT TYPE=hidden name=sendMail$i value=1 checked>

but then I have to make it Global.
GLOBAL $sendMail1, $sendMail2, $sendMail3;

And since I don't know how many checkboxes there are I would have to some how put this in a while loop to make each one global. But that doesn't seem to work for me.

I tried:
<INPUT TYPE=hidden name=sendMail[$i] value=1 checked>

before but it didn't want to work. Is it possible to make and array Global?

GLOBAL $sendMail;
or
GLOBAL $sendMail[];

amcgrath

Naw, it makes it an array with the keys being your unique identifer, and its value whatever u want it to be. I wouldn't do it the way u post above...