PHP POST

ark

Hi!

I'm new to scripting and I'm still a learner of PHP so I need help from you, to solve my problem.

Here's what I'm doing.

I'm doing a page (only a demo) where there are articles. I've decided to practice and make a backstage admin page where I can add, modify or delete articles, and It works fine. Ah, I forgot to tell, I'm using a MySQL database to store the articles.

And the problem: I made my admin page, where I have a form which has all the articles, and have a checkbox assigned to each and every one of them. I'm using the POST method to go to a new page where I can edit the article. So, the problem is, I want the main admin page to be able to send more article IDs with POST (if more than one checkbox is checked) and the editorial page could edit multiple articles at the same time. I thought of arrays, and stuff, but I cannot make it work!

I'd appreciate any help, but if I can ask, please give me some example.

Thank you very much.

TheoGB

ark wrote:
Hi!

I'm new to scripting and I'm still a learner of PHP so I need help from you, to solve my problem.

Here's what I'm doing.

I'm doing a page (only a demo) where there are articles. I've decided to practice and make a backstage admin page where I can add, modify or delete articles, and It works fine. Ah, I forgot to tell, I'm using a MySQL database to store the articles.

And the problem: I made my admin page, where I have a form which has all the articles, and have a checkbox assigned to each and every one of them. I'm using the POST method to go to a new page where I can edit the article. So, the problem is, I want the main admin page to be able to send more article IDs with POST (if more than one checkbox is checked) and the editorial page could edit multiple articles at the same time. I thought of arrays, and stuff, but I cannot make it work!

I'd appreciate any help, but if I can ask, please give me some example.

Thank you very much.

It's actually fairly easy.

Your checkbox name should be name="id[]" value="id on database" or a similar array. This should be the case for each entry with the checkbox.

Then when you post you'll be able to receive the id[] array. Every one that was checked will have a value of the id. I'm pretty sure that's it, but I don't have my code to hand just now. Make brief test page to check?

(EDIT: as in do a for loop over the array you get back and it should only contain values for ones that were checked or just do print_r() on it.)

I'd recommend downloading http://smarty.php.net and beginning with that for your PHP stuff. It might take a bit of thinking to make the best use of it but once you've got it you make your life a LOT easier. 🙂