checkbox confusion

[Jeff Thies]

I have a list of checkboxes that all have the same name:

<INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX VALUE="1" NAME="user_attr64">one<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX VALUE="2" NAME="user_attr64">two<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=CHECKBOX VALUE="3" NAME="user_attr64">three<BR>

I didn't write that, that's the format that mailermailer.com requires.

I need to do a little preprocessing before that gets sent off, so I have
to collect those values and send them off again (LWP post).

I only see the value of the first checkbox. How are all these multiple
checkboxes sent off?

Jeff

 

[Igor Slyusar]

I only see the value of the first checkbox. How are all these multiple
checkboxes sent off?

As far as I remember they are sent as an array. In your case it's
$user_attr64[0], $user_attr64[1], $user_attr64[2] etc.

Regards, Igor Slyusar.
http://www.slyusar.com

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

I only see the value of the first checkbox. How are all these multiple
checkboxes sent off?

As far as I remember they are sent as an array. In your case it's
$user_attr64[0], $user_attr64[1], $user_attr64[2] etc.

1) That's what PHP does. Other languages may do other things.
2) PHP will only do that if you name the checkboxes user_atrr64[].

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

As far as I remember they are sent as an array.

Really? Then you need to check your sources.

The checkbox data is sent as name=value pairs. What happens _then_
depends on the server-side script.

In your case it's
$user_attr64[0], $user_attr64[1], $user_attr64[2] etc.

Who knows? We have no information about the programming environment
used.