defining variable names with variables...aagh

[mistafeesh]

I am trying to insert some data from checkboxes whose names are generated from the database. I'm having troubles with defining the variable in order to fetch its contents... here's my try so far:

$cat_id=($_POST["catbox".$row_category['cat_id']]);

which simply doesn't do anything. the checkbox names are defined by "catbox" plus their unique id from the database, which is called "cat_id" in the table "category"

please help! This has been going on for aeons, and everything I try goes pear shaped!!

[LordShryku]

Get rid of the brackets. Try this:

$cat_id = $_POST['catbox'.$row_category['cat_id']];

[mistafeesh]

thanks.

I've just done that, and realised that something else is holding it all up...I've had to make some changes on my server, which is messing the database connection up somewhere...