order or arrays delivered

roneill

Can anyone help me?

I have a loop containing the html below that produces several checkboxes called subspec[].

When the information is passed to my php page it is obviously delivered as an array.

Here is my problem. When the array is delivered it is delivered in alphabetical order e.g.

subspec[0]= Albert, subspec[1]= Bert subspec[2]= Catherine and so on no matter which order the choices were selected in.

The choices selected on this page will be transfered to column headings on the next page. I want the column headings to appear in the order in which they were selected. Is there any way of doing this ?

Thanks in advance.

Ryan

Anon

Lemme guess: you've listed them in the HTML in alphabetical order.

They'll be submitted in the same order in which they're listed in the HTML. Not a lot you can do about that (I seem to recall the spec saying you're not supposed to rely on that sort of thing anyway).

Anon

What first comes to my mind and maybe bulky is through some javascript in the page that would create a sort. Lets say when you click on a check the javascript will add "-01" to the name and and "1" to a javascript var. Then the next check does the same. Then are you next page have your code sort by the last 3 chars and then remove the last 3 chars. Just a thought...

Anon

How many columns are there going to be? Have that many dropdowns... (and either ignore duplicates, complain about them, act like there's nothing wrong and sort by them anyway, or have Javascript rewrite the dropdown list with each selection). Bonus: The person picking columns gets to see the order in advance.