downloading with checkboxes

concept0020

I am working on a pager where clients can download files and upload them back to me. instead of emailing or tring to have them ftp. I got this to for the most part work with a dropdown box containg a list of files pulled from a mysql database.

Now I am being asked to do it using checkboxes... I have gotten it to print out each file name with a check box into a form with a download button... I am now working on the download script... And this is where I am stuck... I am not sure how to get the file name.

For now I want to be able to only download one at a time. Later on I will work on allowing multi. Is it a matter of checking each box to see if it is set or checked then grabbing that file name. or passing the names somehow to the script... any thoughts...

Thanks
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LordShryku

Just set the value of the checkboxes to the filename, and set the name of the checkboxes to an array. The way checkboxes work: if they were not checked, they won't show up in the $POST array. So, lets assume you have this

<form method="post" action="nextpage.php">
File One: <input type="checkbox" name="files[]" value="file1.txt" />
<br />
File Two: <input type="checkbox" name="files[]" value="file2.txt" />
<br/ >
File Three: <input type="checkbox" name="files[]" value="file3.txt" />
<br/ >
File Four: <input type="checkbox" name="files[]" value="file4.txt" />
<br />
<input type="submit" />
</form>

And you only check File One and File Three, on your next page, you can see what was checked by looking at the $_POST['files'] array.

print_r($_POST['files']);

concept0020

I just tried what you had suggested and it worked when I used your code to try it. i.e. file1.txt file2.txt...

but when I tried it not know the exact file name or number of files, cause they are comming out of the database; diffrent files for diffrent users; i got nothing...

echo'<td>'.$list_file[$i].'<input type="checkbox" name="$file[]" value="$list_file[$i]" ></td>';

that is the code that I used to display what files there are it is in a while loop... any thought why or how to do this with an unknown number of files...

thanks

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LordShryku

Sure. First make sure your query is right, and that this loop is correct. I suspect you're doing a for or a while loop. The single quotes are bad, since they won't allow parsing of your variables, and the excess $'s need to be taken out, like this:

echo'<td>'.$list_file[$i].'<input type="checkbox" name="file[]" value="'.$list_file[$i].'" ></td>';

concept0020

Sweet,
thanks a lot... i can see which files are checked...

thanks for the help!

DE2