Check Box Troubles.........

[cheyner11]

I am building a form with two pages. One contains the form ("post_project.php") and the other is the form handler that stores the form information into the database ("post_project_results.php").

The problem I am having stems from my checkboxes. I currently give a user the opportunity to choose between 1 and 10 options for his intended project. This checkbox group is referred to as "box1".

I do not know the first clue about checkboxes and PHP, but I vision that I will soon know how to do the following.

I would like for my form to post the checkbox information (Up to 10 selections) to the form handler page and then putting it all into one variable, thus creating $box2, that will be stored in the database as a text entry.

I would also like to go even further and have my form handler send all the check box information back to the intial page, in the event that a mistake has been made. (Thus, keeping my users happy by not reinputing their check their info).

Is any of this possible???

A quick code sample outlining the code needed for both my form page and my form handling page would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you so much.

Much appreciated.

I have been struggling all week with this.

[Weedpacket]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php

Have a look at what it says about using arrays for form field names; what is shown there for select statements and text input (example 2.10) can also be done with checkboxes.

<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox[1]" value="1">1<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox[2]" value="2">1<br>

As for grouping them all together into a single text string to store in the database: don't. Store each selection (up to 10) as separate rows in the database. It will need another couple of tables but it will be a lot less hassle later on (search for "database normalization" on these forums - you should get a few examples of what I mean).