[thelist] dump question, but...

[Dan McCullough]

oh look I spelled dumb wrong how dumb is that.

lol

On 6/10/05, Dan McCullough <dan.mccullough at gmail.com> wrote:
> the brackets are for the array in the error checking and to pull the
> values out on the next page.
> 
> foreach($_POST['housecond'] as $value) {
>  if ($value=='1') {
>   //then do something creative
>  }
> }
> 
> what I am looking for is if there is an error for some reason, someone
> forgets to fill in their last name or whatever I dont want the person
> to have to go back and recheck all the checkboxes again I want the
> form to remember.
> I'm probably going to have to create a function or loop to get all the
> options on teh form page and then if soemthing comes back not entered
> in the form then the loop should be able to check if something is
> checked, but I am lazy and dont want to do that .. :)
> 
> 
> On 6/10/05, Michele Foster - WizarDev <michele at wizardev.ca> wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan McCullough" <dan.mccullough at gmail.com>
> >
> >
> > > Its been awhile and I'm getting rusty.  I'm doing some redirecting
> > > back to a php form page, its a pretty long form so I dont want people
> > > to have to fill in all the stuff if they missed one thing or even 30
> > > things.  Anyway, I have a checkbox with about 9 items they can check,
> > > and I want that remembered, so I something like this.
> > >
> > > <input type="checkbox" name="housecond[]" value="1" <? if
> > > ($housecond=="1") print "checked" ?>>
> > >
> >
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > You haven't actually said what's wrong ... so, here are some ideas.
> >
> > What are the brackets doing in the name attribute?  That could be the
> > problem right there. The value being passed would then be housecond[]=1, and
> > not housecond=1.
> >
> > Also, if all of your checkboxes are using the same name, then the string
> > being passed when submitted, probably looks something like,
> > housecond[]=1,3,5.  In which case, you will either have to split that into
> > an array in order to get the single values (I don't do it this way), or
> > check if the value is in the string.  In ASP, it's the instr function .. I
> > don't know what it would be in PHP.
> >
> > If I'm way off base, perhaps more info is needed.  :)
> >
> > Mich
> >
> >
> >
>