Chekcbox ASP - Any easy ways to handle them

[JP SIngh]

Hi All

I have been asked to do a project which deal with user entering data but
most of the answers are to be added to the database. The forms will be
editable as well so all the checkbox values will have to be retrived and
displayed.

It all seems to be a hell lot of if conditions to me. Does anyone know of a
good way to deal with loads of checkboxes.

Regards
Jas

 

[McKirahan]

Hi All

I have been asked to do a project which deal with user entering data but
most of the answers are to be added to the database. The forms will be
editable as well so all the checkbox values will have to be retrived and
displayed.

It all seems to be a hell lot of if conditions to me. Does anyone know of a
good way to deal with loads of checkboxes.

Regards
Jas

Treat them as an array and use a For loop to process them.

 

[Aaron Bertrand [SQL Server MVP]]

It all seems to be a hell lot of if conditions to me. Does anyone know of

a
good way to deal with loads of checkboxes.

Do they all have unique/similar names, are there several checkboxes with the
same name, where multiple options can be checked?

You can start here...

http://www.aspfaq.com/2036

....but there are certainly ways to make your life easier if you can provide
more details. For example if all of your checkboxes are named similarly,
such as <input name=chk1, chk2, chk3, etc, you can say:

for i = 1 to request.form.count
n = request.form.key(i)
v = request.form.item(i)
if left(n, 3) = "chk" then
' checkbox
response.write "Checkbox " & n & " = " & v & "<br>"
else
' not a checkbox, do other processing
end if
next

 

[Bullschmidt]

Here's a snippet of code from a project I've done with checkboxes that
hopefully might give you some ideas:

<% ' *** Operation %>
<tr>
<td align="right">A surgical procedure or fracture?</td>
<td valign="bottom">
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No<input type="radio" name="Operation"
<%= jpsvbBoolToChecked(Operation = False) %> value="No"
onchange="jpsjsSetUnsaved(true);">
Yes<input type="radio" name="Operation" <%=
jpsvbBoolToChecked(Operation = True) %> value="Yes"
onchange="jpsjsSetUnsaved(true);">
</td>
</tr>

Best regards,
J. Paul Schmidt, Freelance ASP Web Developer
http://www.Bullschmidt.com
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I have been asked to do a project which deal with user entering data but
most of the answers are to be added to the database. The forms will be
editable as well so all the checkbox values will have to be retrived and
displayed.

It all seems to be a hell lot of if conditions to me. Does anyone know
of a
good way to deal with loads of checkboxes.