Checkbox Problem

[wipeskim]

Hi

I am having trouble using multiple forms with the checkbox,

i am listing results from the database such as the name of the person and the reference number and on the listings i have the checkbox to select the User using the 2 forms to perform the actions one for delete the selected users and other to multiple edit the Users information.

The problem is that is only running the Delete User when i press the Edit User button it doesn't show any values from the checkbox i think the form buttons are entering
in conflict. I tryed to close the Edit user Form </form> before the While loop but that doesn't run the checkbox values also.

Is there any other way to perform this?

This is the code that i am using , on the second file that is actions.php i just put to print the checkbox values:

<? echo "<form id='form1' action='actions.php?action=delete_user' method='post' enctype='multipart/form-data' name='form1'>"; ?>

<input type="submit" name="delete" value="Delete User" />

<? echo "<form id='form2' action='actions.php?action=edit_user ' method='post' enctype='multipart/form-data' name='form2'>"; ?>

<input type="submit" name="edit" value="Edit user" />

<? while($result = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) { ?>

<?

$ref=$result["reference"];
       echo "<INPUT TYPE='checkbox' NAME='checkbox[]' VALUE='$ref'>";

					?>

<?

printf("<font color='#000000'>%s</font>",$result["reference"]);   
printf("<font color='#000000'>%s</font>",$result["user_name"]);  


								?>

<? } ?>

</form>
</form>

-> File actions.php

<?

require ("setup.php");

$link=mysql_connect("$host","$dbuser","$dbpass");
mysql_select_db("$bdname");

switch ($action) {

case "delete_user":

$checkbox_cnt = count($checkbox);

for ($i = 0; $i < $checkbox_cnt; $i++)
{
echo $checkbox[$i];

}

break;

case "edit_user":

$checkbox_cnt = count($checkbox);

for ($i = 0; $i < $checkbox_cnt; $i++)

{    echo $checkbox[$i];   }

break;

} // End of Switch Case ///////////////

?>

If someone can help me with this i appreciate,

Thanks to all

[Weedpacket]

Well, HTML doesn't allow you to nest two forms inside each other.

Use two submit buttons (in ONE form!) with different names ("edit" or "delete") and use isset($POST['edit']) or isset($POST['delete']) to see which was clicked.

And, uh, use &#91;php]...[/code] tags when posting PHP code.

And please get out of the habit of using <font> tags! You wouldn't build a car with a leaf-spring suspension would you?

[halojoy]

Weedpacket wrote:

And please get out of the habit of using <font> tags!

Instead of 'old' <font></font>
You can use CSS style in <span style="color: black">Some Text</span>
This also gives you more attributes to use, than <font>

<?

printf("<span style='color:#000000'>%s</span>",$result["reference"]);
printf("<span style='color:#000000'>%s</span>",$result["user_name"]);

?>

[Kudose]

I never really knew how powerful the printf statement was until I just started learning C.

Wish I knew about it before.

I totally agree with Weedpacket and Halojoy on the font tags too.