forms and checkboxes

[babygodzilla]

im using a loop to recreate a form 5 times, consisting of a drop down menu and a text field. to name them, i use

"<input name=\"code".$x."\" (and so on)

so the names of the 5 fields are code1, code2, code3, code4, code5. so my question is is this a good way to name them? cause im kinda having trouble with the handling form. im not sure how to loop thru them. i thought i could just increment the numbers at the end of code# by appending something like code.$x or something like that. rite now i just have 5 separate if statements for each code#.

another thing, after all this form is processed and results displayed, i want to put checkboxes right next to each search result to perform another operation. how should i name those checkboxes?

THANKS!

[bastien]

are the checkboxes related (ie cover the same kind of thing and user is allowed to choose one or more options)

then make the boxes an array and iterate thru the array to get the data

echo "<input type=\'checkbox\' name=\'code[]\' value=\'1\'>";

then to look at the data in the array

//check if the var has a value isset(something checked)
[b]if (isset($_POST['code'])){[/b]
  //if more than one item, implode the array to create a comma
  //separated variable
[b]  if (count($_POST['code'])>1){

  $code=implode(", ",$_POST['code']);
  }else{[/b]
      //only one element checked off
      [b]$code = $_POST['code'][0];
  }
}[/b]

[babygodzilla]

blah... i didnt know u can use an array as a name