Checkboxes

[Edwin_Okli]

Riiight.
I have two methods of submitting:

echo "<input type='submit' name='delete' value='Delete'>";
echo "<input type='submit' name='read' value='Mark as read'>";

now, I want this to submit the values of the checked boxes but I'm not quite sure how to name the checkboxes in terms of value='' and name=''.

Thanks,
Edwin Okli

[bradgrafelman]

What does your form look like, or what are you trying to do (in a nutshell)?

Based on the labels on your two buttons, I'm guessing you're trying to manage multiple items that can each be uniquely represented by some identifier (e.g. a numeric "id"). If this is the case, I would name them something like:

<input type="checkbox" name="id[]" value="36">Message #36: blah blah

Then, in your processing page, you'd do something like:

foreach($_POST['id'] as $id) {
    // do operation using $id
}

or, if using some sort of SQL query and you wanted to apply the same operation to all:

$id_list = implode(',', $_POST['id']);

$sql = "UPDATE foo SET bar='read' WHERE id IN ($id_list)";

EDIT: Woops, silly me... failed to point out that the last coding example there doesn't do any sort of escaping/sanitizing... should probably do something like:

$id_list = array_map('intval', implode(',', $_POST['id']));

if you're working with numeric id's.