Checkbox into Array value

ow-phil

Good day,

I am in the process of designing a site administration where i need to do the following:

List checkboxes for the 7 days of the week. and save the value of the checkboxes as an array.

Example

Sun[x]
Mon[ ]
Tue[x]
Wed[ ]
Thu[x]
Fri[ ]
Sat[x]

I would like it to show as the following inside the array:

1,0,1,0,1,0,1

Checkmarked means 1 or on, and 0 means off.

How would i do this so it give me 1 variable ($days) to beable to Write to mysql?

Help...

Thanks in advance

Phil

pete_bisby

You will need to declare your checkbox variable as days[] within your HTML form.

As this is passed by PHP, it automatically creates the array $days.

tbach2

This what you're looking for?

<?php

print_r($_POST['days']);

?>
<form action="multiple.php" method="post">
<select multiple name="days[]">
<option value="sun">sun</option>
<option value="mon">mon</option>
<option value="tue">tue</option>
<option value="wed">wed</option>
<option value="thu">thu</option>
<option value="fri">fri</option>
<option value="sat">sat</option>
</select>
<input type="submit">
</form>

ow-phil

Tried the select form as listed, even though I need checkboxes, and am getting when I explode the data on the next page to see what is in that array: "Array" as the value.

<?

$daysoftheweekinfo = explode(",",$row[daysoftheweek]);
$daysoftheweekinfo_number = count($daysoftheweekinfo);
?>

<select name="daysoftheweek">
<?

for($i=0;$i<$daysoftheweekinfo_number;$i++)
{
?>

<option value="<?php echo $daysoftheweekinfo[$i]; ?>"><?php echo $daysoftheweekinfo[$i]; ?></option>
<? }
?>

</select>

The problem is: I need to write the array from information in checkboxes, one for each day of the week.

Phil

tbach2

sorry 'bout that, guess a few synapses got shorted. That little snippet should have called itself, so that the print_r() function would explode the array so that you could see what was in the variable.

For example, if you had selected sun,tue,thu,sat then the variable would hold
Array (
[0] => sun
[1] => tue
[2] => thu
[3] => sat
)

But select wasn't what you were asking about... but the principle remains the same: make the name of the input to be an array by using the [] at the end.

For checkboxes you could have

name="days[1]"
name="days[2]"

etc.

then when the data is submitted you will have all the data in the array, $days.

from there you can build a string '1,0,0,1' ... etc.

for the mysql side, be sure to look up the 'enum' type, it might be what you're looking for