2 arrays in form

[Anon]

Hi!

I have a question. I have a form that consists of checkboxes. Each checkbox has two values, date and time. I can pass the dates, or times, of the ones checked through an array. But can I send both values through arrays? Does that make sense?

Would I create a multi-dimensional array?

I'm stuck. Thanks for any help!!

Lisa

[Anon]

how can one checkbox have two values? a checkbox is either ON or OFF.

You can name form elements in a multidimensional array form like so:

elementname[subname][subsubname]

if you are using a checkbox, then you can leave the last part blank:

elementname[subname][subsubname][]

[Anon]

I wasn't saying the checkbox could have two values. I was simply asking if there was any way to pass two elements in a form where the user has to check boxes. Can you do this?

<input type="checkbox" name="datetime[][]" value="....">

How do you populate both values?

If anything I could use radio buttons and have them pass only one option at a time....

[Anon]

no, you cannot do datetime[][], but there is usually another way to solve the problem. If you get creative with arrays or variable variables, there are a bunch of ways to pass multiple values around. you could also have both values be concatenated into one value and then explode them upon retrieval.

[Anon]

Yeah, maybe I will have to do that, I just haven't done that before so I was wondering if there was a way around it. But I will try that.