dynamic user input forms

Lcousins

Hi all,

hopefully im going to be able to give a clear explanation here, one of the problems is that Im not totally sure what I can actually achieve!

Im trying to make a user registration form which looks up from a mysql database a list of usergroups and lists them with tick boxes on the registration form. I can do that part, the bit im stumbling at is then getting the code that processes the form to take all the values and create usergroup records accordingly when the values are dynamically generated.

make enough sense?? an example -

3 groups, admin, teacher, tutor. the form checks this list and creates tick boxes for each of them on the form under the standard details such as username and password. when submitted the called page then takes the standard info and creates a new user record from it then creates a usergroup record for each tickbox thats ticked. its the last bit I cant seem to do, because since the number of tickboxes may vary I dont know how to check them all??

thanks

Luke

treds1

You will need to store the values in an array

try something like this

in form

echo "<input type=\"checkbox\" value=\"value\" id=\"id\" name=\"name[]\"><br>";

then to process

$array=$_POST['name'];
         if (($array === null))
         {
             echo='No options selected;

  }
  else
  {
      $variabel= implode(',',$array);

[code=php]

hope this is of some help

Lcousins

yep thanks, its told me I need to finally face my fear of arrays!! dammit :p

to get me on my way, do I undertand correctly that all tick boxes should have the same name, specifically something[] and that will collect all the different results into a kind of mini table??

perhaps I should pay a visit back to the newbie form 😉

thanks
again

Luke

treds1

they dont have to teh code i wrote was written originally to provide a check box against each item retireved from a db and then if you clicked ont eh check box that item would be deleted, so in that case the name was the same.

hHowever, they names dont have to be all the same.