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liang

I was looking the new tutorials for Website Change Request Form, and I try to change a little bit for checkbox area. I want the checkbox area can POST the multi-select array, and I was search online for the solution which I am stuck. For example, if I select the TEST2 & TEST4 how do I make the post script to send out the two result instead of only one result. I am total a newbie.

Someone please help me out!!

Thank you!!

Here is one of the checkbox example:


<div class=\"rowElem\">                    
                    <div id=\"changeTypeArea\">
                
                        <input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"test\" id=\"c1\" value=\"Test1\" />
                        <label for=\"c1\">Test1</label>
                        
                        <div class=\"clear\"></div>
                        
                        <input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"test\" id=\"c2\" value=\"Test2\" />
                        <label for=\"c2\">Test2</label>
                        
                        <div class=\"clear\"></div>
                        
                        <input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"test\" id=\"c3\" value=\"Test3\" />
                        <label for=\"c3\">Test3</label>
                        
                        <div class=\"clear\"></div>
                        
                        <input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"test\" id=\"c4\" value=\"Test4\" />
                        <label for=\"c4\">Test4</label>
                        
                        <div class=\"clear\"></div>
                        
                        <input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"test\" id=\"c5\" value=\"Test5\" />
                        <label for=\"c5\">Test5</label>                    
                    </div>
                </div>

My post script:


$message .= array();
if (isset($_POST[\"test\"])){
	$message .= $_POST['test'] . \"\n\n\";
}

davesgonebananas

You are having problems because you have called all your checkboxes "test" and thus the value of the variable is being overwritten.

If you instead name them "test[]" you will receive a PHP array which contains the values of the selected checkboxes. For example, if the user has marked boxes 2 and 3, you will receive the following array:

$_POST["test"] = Array ( [0] => Test2 [1] => Test3 )

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