problem with array

hi all,

i am displaying an undefined number of items to the screen and for each of them, i give the user the options to delete it.

the code looks like this:

item #<? print $id; ?>
<input type="hidden" name ="id[]" value="<? print $id; ?>"> 
<input type="checkbox" name ="delete[]" value="1">

when i press submit, the array length for 'delete' return the number of boxes that are checked and not the number of items.

for example if i have:
-apple
-banana
-oranges

and i check banana, the delete array would have length 1 instead of 3 which make it impossible for me to retrieve which boxes were checked.

can anybody help?
thanks.

huh? It;s only going to put in the array the boxes that were checked.

if you check banana, it's only outputing one becuase only one was checked. The only one that will be in that array would be the one you checked.

if you want as array of all possible checks, you may want to build another array....

thanks for the reply LordShryku so what is the solution to my problem?

What exactly is the problem? The array id only telling you the ones to delete. Anything in the delete array......delete.

i am trying to match the checkbox the user chose with the id of the items. if delete[] and id[] had the same number of elements, i would have done

for($i=0;$i<count($id);$i++) {
  if ($delete[$i] == 1) {
    // delete item where id = $id[$i];
  }
}

Well, Id say the easiest way would be to set the delete value

// change this
<input type="checkbox" name ="delete[]" value="1">

// to this
<input type="checkbox" name ="delete[]" value="<?=$id?>">

That way, the result coming back in the delete array will be the ID's you should delete.

ohh i see.
so if delete[$i] is set, i use $i as the id ....

thanks a lot!