[RESOLVED] form with check box?

trehy2006

Hi,

I am submitting (post) a form through one page to another
if I had a checkbox on the form like so:

<input type=\"checkbox\" value=\"Hosting\" name=\"hosting\" ".$Hosting." />

$hosting is above set to Checked if necessary

how would i now i f the box is checked?? I have tried:

if ($_POST['hosting'] == "Hosting")

but no luck, i have also tried looking on google, still no luck.
The form only contains one checkbox.

I say that because i have seen code snippets using foreach() but that dont seem to work with this

Any help is greatly appreciated

TIA
Rob

leatherback

On top of my head I'd say a checkbox does not return a value, but only true if set, otherwise it is not submitted.

use

print_r($_POST);

to see what is in the posted data.

if($_POST['hosting'] === true)
{
// is my best bet withput testing facilities
}

trehy2006

hmm... strange i get:

[hosting] => Hosting

Any other ideas??

TIA
Rob

leatherback

So, it looks like it does return a value (I never tried 🙂), and the box was checked I presume. Try posting without checking the box. The post array should show empty.

trehy2006

yeah, with it empty i dont get a [hosting] in the list of varsiablse

TIA
Rob

leatherback

Please mark the thread resolved if it is. (See thread tools)

trehy2006

sorry.... its not! :mad:

it still wont set

Basically, when the checkbox is submitted, i want a if statement to see if it is checked....if it set $yes to checked but it wont, wheter check or not

have tried

$POST['hosting'] == "Hosting"
$POST['hosting'] == true
$_POST['hosting']....

Just a thought.. .. the above checks prove that i could just use isset??

just gonna try it!

TIA
Rob

leatherback

if(isset($_POST['hosting']))
  {
  Echo 'true';
  }
else
  {
  echo 'false';
  }

🙂

trehy2006

Thanks that works fine!

Thanks very much

leatherback

You mean to say that that code gives you false all the time?

trehy2006

sorry just edited above post, thought i could be quick enough....it did at first but now seems to be fine!