[Resolved] dealing with form checkboxes

[jacksonpt]

I've got a question on a form that uses multiple checkboxes for the answer part of the question.

Users are allowed to check more than 1 checkbox when answering the question (hence the use of checkboxes and not radio buttons). Is it possible/reasonably easy to give all the checkboxes for the question the same name but different values and still be able to extract multiple answers from the form? Does that make any sense?

Basically... I don't want to have uniquely name each checkbox then concatinate all the checkboxes together before I populate my db.

Any thoughts?

[devinemke]

use an array:

<input type="checkbox" name="answers[]" value="1">
<input type="checkbox" name="answers[]" value="2">
<input type="checkbox" name="answers[]" value="3">
<input type="checkbox" name="answers[]" value="4">
<input type="checkbox" name="answers[]" value="5">

when submitted you will have an array with all of the checked answers:

$_POST['answers']

[jacksonpt]

That did it... thanks.