[RESOLVED] Trying to retrieve values from an array

[tryin_to_learn]

I have a form with a series of checkboxes, each describing a health condition. I've tried every combo I can think of to mark a box checked if the user submits the form then needs to go back to make edits. Here's one of many examples that doesn't work. Can someone supply the magic one that does? ($saForm is the name of the whole form that's getting echoed - this is just a snippet of code)

$saForm = '
<input type="checkbox" name="healthConditions[]" value="physically limiting heart condition"';
if ($_POST['healthConditions'] == "physically limiting heart condition"){
	$saForm .= "checked";
	}	
$saForm .= '
physically limiting heart condition';

[Houdini]

The problem is that checkboxes go into an indexed array so if only one check box were checked it would be $POST['healthConditions'][0] so depending on how the check boxes are arranged and which ones were checked $POST['healthConditions'][] could be just about anything. If the customer has submitted the form are you then redisplaying it for them to possibly edit it?

[tryin_to_learn]

Yes. They submit the form, then are presented with either a confirm page for them to approve or reject, or a representation of the form with validation errors marked. Either way, I need to be able to redisplay the boxes they checked.

Thanks for the explanation -- that makes sense. So how do you mark the appropriate values as checked?

[Houdini]

This has been brought up before and here is the LINK
Maybe you can get what you need from there.

[tryin_to_learn]

Thanks. However, that post seems to be for getting info from the database -- I'm doing a confirm page before sending it to the DB. Sorry if I wasn't clear. I finally got this to work:

$saForm = '
<input type="checkbox" name="healthConditions[]" value="limiting physical disabilities"';
	$saForm .= (in_array("limiting physical disabilities", (array)($_SESSION['healthConditions[]'])) ? "checked" : "");	
$saForm .= '
limiting physical disabilities';
echo $saForm;