checkboxes as an array?

[Anon]

I am trying to construct a simple project task manager for our small web team. Right now, there are 3 pages. Don't have the time, nor need the functionality of the larger downloads on some of the open source sites.

main page --- queries MySQL for all tasks and groups them by team member. I have a checkbox that is outputted next to each task via a while loop. The idea is that when a team member completes a task, they can check the checkbox and update all of the tasks checked.

Can I use an array? such as ...

<input type=checkbox name=checkbox[] value=$taks_id>

???

second page --- this is the update task page. Ideally, ech task would be queried and populated into a form element (text form field), ready to be modified.

How do bring the unique tasks to this page from the first? Ideally, I would like to associate it with the task_id, so when I do an "update table," the update only happens to that unique task record.

third page --- this is the page that actually does the update and if successful, outputs "success!". Then it provides a choice to go back to page 1 or add a new task..

Any help would be great.. Thanks in advance.

Benji

[Anon]

All check boxes return 'on' if they're checked, so you need to uniquely name each one. Your best bet is to do something like:

<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"checkbox[$task_id]\">

Then, you'll loop through the $checkbox array using a:

foreach($checkbox as $key => value) {

}

And do your processing inside of it (basing it off 'key' and making sure 'value' is "on").