Ahh, help. Advanced coding

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Ok, I have a huge application I spent about 6yrs (initially was a CGI based app).

Any ways...

I added a function to create custom form fields. All is smooth working nice as expected. Except, I am having issues with one thing.

I want the user to be able to use more than one set of checkboxes.

How I am building the checkboxes.

First I am finding out what form field to create:

function buildFormField($list){

switch($list['form_type']){
	case 'select':
		$form_field = buildSelect($list['cfid'], $list['form_values']);
		break;
	case 'radio':
		$form_field = buildRadio($list['cfid'], $list['form_values'], $list['form_req'], $list['form_name']);
		break;
	[b]case 'checkbox':
		$form_field = buildCheckbox($list['cfid'], $list['form_values'], $list['form_req'], $list['form_name']);
		break;[/b]// Build checkbox
	case 'textfield':
		$form_field = "<input type=\"text\" name=\"custom" . $list['cfid'] . "\" class=\"input\" size=\"35\"";
		if($list['form_req'] == 'yes'){
			$form_field .= " alt=\"blank|" . unclean_value($list['form_name']) . "\"";
		}
		$form_field .= ">";
		break;
	case 'textarea':
		$form_field = "<textarea name=\"custom" . $list['cfid'] . "\" cols=\"30\" rows=\"5\" class=\"textarea\"";
		if($list['form_req'] == 'yes'){
			$form_field .= " alt=\"blank|" . unclean_value($list['form_name']) . "\"";
		}
		$form_field .= "></textarea>";
		break;
}
return ($form_field);
}

Ok,here we build the checkboxes.

function buildCheckbox($cfid, $form_values, $form_req, $form_name){
	$form_vals = @explode("\r", $form_values);
	for($l = 0; $l < count($form_vals); $l++) {
		$checkbox .= "<input type=\"checkbox\" class=\"checkbox\" name=\"custom" . $cfid . "[]\" value=\"" . $form_vals[$l] . "\"";
		if($form_req == 'yes'){
			$checkbox .= " alt=\"checkbox|1|<:OPTIONS:>|" . unclean_value($form_name) . "\"";
		}
		$checkbox .= "><span class=\"small\">" . $form_vals[$l] . "</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;\n";
	}
	return(str_replace('<:OPTIONS:>', $l, $checkbox));
}

Trying to make it a 'customIDNum[]' array.

When submitted, this is how I am getting then sending the info:

$query = $db -> query("SELECT cfid, form_name, form_type FROM " . CUSTOM_FORM_TABLE . " ORDER BY cfid");
    while ($cform = $db -> fetch_array($query)) {
        $custom = "custom$cform[cfid]";
        $custom = "${$custom}";

    if(value_exists($custom)){
        if($cform['form_type'] == 'checkbox'){
	        $info = '';
	        for($x = 0; $x < sizeof($custom); $x++) {
		        if($x >= 1){
			       $info .= ", "; 
		        }
		        $info .= $custom[$x];
	        }
        } else {
	       $info = $custom; 
        }
        $message .= unclean_value($cform['form_name']). ": " . $info . "\n";
    }  
}

Im aware of working with and doing named values of for example:

name="delcat[]" value="myCat" . $id

I am just having an issue with getting:
$custom = "custom$cform[cfid]";
$custom = "${$custom}";

Values from the checkbox. Ideally, I could just do checkbox[]. But then they can only use one set of checkboxes.

Any one having any insight in what I maybe be missing. It is usually a deal with me overlooking something by trying to damn hard. I know I have done this before, I think. LOL!!!

It is only returning 'A' of 'Array'.

Thanks in advance!