using data from checkboxes

[jwb666]

um.. i'm stuck with checkboxes i'm not a newb its just i haven't come accross checkboxes before. I was wondering how you get data form it - I have tried two ways:

HTML Form:

<form action= blah blah blah>

<input type="checkbox" name="example">

<input type="checkbox" name="another_example">

<input type="submit blah blah blah>

</form>

This was how itried to access the info:

if( isset($example) )
{
echo ("Example was ticked");
}

if( isset($another_example) )
{
echo("Another example was ticked");
}

// i also tried it missing out isset() and just putting if( $example )
// but it still didn't work

i also tried doing a value on the checkboxes and using the same name for both of them (like radio buttons) and accessing them like this:

if( $example == "example_1" )
{
echo ("Example was ticked");
}

if( $example == "example_2" )
{
echo("Another example was ticked");
}

oh yeah and i know about register_global but i just didn't bother putting $_POST[] in my example.

any help would be much appreciated![/QUOTE]

[Weedpacket]

Could we have a sample of the real code then (form tag, too)? That way we won't run the risk of pointing out things that you know about but didn't bother with in the example. (I for one can't quite tell whether you mean you have register_globals on or off or whether or not you're using $_POST or not).

Some real code that exhibits the problem would be ideal - preferably with a minimum of irrelevant bits.

[kevinsequeira]

<form name="checkbox example" method="POST" action="whatever.php">
<input type="checkbox" name="ques1" value="1">
<input type="checkbox" name="ques2" value="1">
<input type="checkbox" name="ques3" value="1">
</form>

//whatever.php

if(isSet($POST['ques1'])){
echo $POST['ques1'];
}

and so on

reg
kevin