[thelist] Strange checkbox issue (PHP / Forms)

ben morrison morrison.ben at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 08:37:29 CST 2009


On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Jack Timmons <jorachim at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:06 AM, ben morrison <morrison.ben at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Hugh Miller <hmiller at cfpress.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> > Try adding true, so it prints out the contents:
> >
> > print_r($_POST['subsection'], true);
> >
>
> Adding "true" only makes print_r return the output, not display it. If you
> use "true", you would want to do it as so:
>
> $string - print_r($_POST,true);
>

I was talking about debugging sorry, as in

error_log(print_r($_POST['subsection'], true);

To make sure the beginning of the script is working,


> > isset() just tests to see if it 'is set' - which it is, the way you have
> > coded it.
> >
> > Maybe it would be better to test for empty:
> >
> > if (false == empty($_POST['subsection'])) {
> >    //do something
> > }
> >
>
> !empty($_POST) would work just as well, to save some space.
>


Would that help to fix the problem of invalid in the loop of
$_POST['subsection'])

Surely thats where the test should be for the invalid issue.

Ben
-- 
Ben Morrison



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