checkboxes in forms

[ozzyman]

Hi,

Im a newbie to php, but I cannot figure out how to pass the contents of an array to a variable, i.e. in my form i have several checkboxes that contain e-mail addresses, when the user is filling out the form, they select the e-mail addresses for who they want the form sent to by selecting the checkboxes, I need the value of the checkboxes to go into the $to variable so the form is sent to the people the user selected in the form. Or does anyone know if there an easier way for a user to select multiple reciepients.

Thanks,

[Anon]

Hello ozzy

Let me think for a while. Is your emails already on the screen as a varible eg. $email?

eg. form.php
...
<input type='checkbox' name='to' value='$email'>
...

eg. mailto.php

$no_of_email = count($to) // count no of email address in an array

for (i = 0; i > $no_of_email; i++)
{
echo email; // you can see it on the screen.
}

good luck

[Anon]

Let me clarify this for myself: You have a list of checkboxes

<input type="checkbox" value="PersonA">PersonA<br>
<input type="checkbox" value="PersonB">PersonB<br>
<input type="checkbox" value="PersonC">PersonC<br>
<input type="checkbox" value="PersonD">PersonD<br>
<input type="checkbox" value="PersonE">PersonE<br>

...and you want the values of all the checked checkboxes to be available to the script processing the form in a single array called $to?

In that case consider naming the checkboxes thus:

<input type="checkbox" name="to[]" value="PersonA">PersonA<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="to[]" value="PersonB">PersonB<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="to[]" value="PersonC">PersonC<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="to[]" value="PersonD">PersonD<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="to[]" value="PersonE">PersonE<br>

Example:
[ ]PersonA
[X]PersonB
[ ]PersonC
[ ]PersonD
[X]PersonE

would result in the array
$to=array('PersonB','PersonE');
being set in the called script.

Is this what you're looking for?