Trouble getting info from html to php

ricinacloak

I have an HTML page containing multiple check boxes. It also contains a javascript to toggle the checks off and on, or to select all. The javascript requires that all the checkboxes have the same name attribute, although i have given them different id's. this all works fine, but when i click through to a php page, I can only see the last checkbox, in javascript they are treated as an array of controls, and thats roughly what i expected to get in php. $_REQUEST simply doesnt contain what i need, is the re a solution in php (definitely the preferred option), or do i need a different solution in javascript.

cosminb

Originally posted by ricinacloak
I have an HTML page containing multiple check boxes. It also contains a javascript to toggle the checks off and on, or to select all. The javascript requires that all the checkboxes have the same name attribute, although i have given them different id's.

this can be done without that (same name)

this all works fine, but when i click through to a php page, I can only see the last checkbox, in javascript they are treated as an array of controls, and thats roughly what i expected to get in php. $_REQUEST simply doesnt contain what i need, is the re a solution in php (definitely the preferred option), or do i need a different solution in javascript.

if you want all the values to be passed to the php page the checkboxes must have different names.
take this example for instance:

$a=1;
$a=2;
$a=3;

i hope you didn't expect that $a will contain 1 2 and 3.
the same thing is with variables who come from html.

post your code here if you have any trouble

ricinacloak

Below are the JavaScripts
<a href="" onClick="document.forms[0].d.checked = true; for(i=0; i<document.forms[0].d.length; i++) { document.forms[0].d.checked = true; } return false">Select all</a>

      <a href="" onClick="document.forms[0].d.checked = !document.forms[0].d.checked; for(i=0; i<document.forms[0].d.length; i++) { document.forms[0].d[i].checked = !document.forms[0].d[i].checked; } return false">Invert selection</a>

I was hoping for 'd' to be an array when it arrived in php (as Javascript seems to see it as one), but perhaps thats wishfull thinking, I guess im going to need a new javascript so that I can allocate unique names to the check boxes.

cosminb

it will be an array if you name the "name" atribute "d[]"

<input type=... name="d[]">

stolzyboy

when you have checkboxes and need them the same name

use

for each checkbox

that will create an array the php can grab on the next page and you can run for loops, implode, explode, you can check those out
at www.php.net and search