Assigning a Foreach loop…

[robertallen]

Hi all,

I’m still new to PHP. I took 5 months at a community college and still don’t get everything. Currently I’m trying to make a form mail script with checkboxes. All the other types of inputs are easy, except for this.

My HTML code is this…

Have you ever had*:
Diabetes Hypoglycemia Seizures Fainting Spells Eating Disorders Respiratory Problems Psychiatric Care Phobias

And my PHP code is this:

$subject = ‘Awe Star Online Missionary Application Form’;
$webMaster = ’[email protected]’;

$body = << E-Mail – $email

Have you ever had – $haveyoueverhad

Submitted on:
$time

EOD;

/* Sends E-Mail */
$headers = “From: $emailrn”;
$headers . “Content-type: text/htmlrn”;
$success = mail($webMaster, $subject, $body, $headers);

/* Results after E-Mail is sent */
header(‘Location:thankyou.php’);

Now, learning about checkboxes, I’ve figured out that I need a foreach loop as checkboxes submit results into an array of values.

foreach($haveyouever as $haveyouever_result) {
echo $haveyouever_result)
}

But, I was wondering, is there a way to output this foreach loop into a variable so I can add that variable into the EOD body for e-mail purposes?

[robertallen]

I can’t seem to add the code feature to the HTML but the name of the checkboxes are $haveyouever[] with a value of whatever it is (not a numerical value)

[SgtLegend]

You can use the `join()` function which accepts a separator then an array.

$haveyouever = join(‘, ‘, $haveyouever);

[robertallen]

I tried putting that inside the foreach loop but it received errors. Is this something I do beforehand?

[__]

`$haveyouever` is the array of results from the form submission, correct?

no, you don’t use a loop.

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p.s. `join()` is an alias for `implode()`
(I’d never heard of `join()` before!)

*p.p.s. – nice to see a college course that teaches using HEREDOC notation! : )*

[robertallen]

That worked beautifully! Thank you guys so much.

I was googling last night for answers and there were so many if statements and whatnot, I figured it was a lot simpler than 20 lines of code for one checkbox.

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