Check Box PHP
Hi all first post to the forum.
I have been developing a form that has many radio buttons and have managed to output this to email using Php. Now I thought I would be clever and use check boxes for a question on credit card types.The user may have more than one card. I have spend three weekends now trying to get some Php code to make it output to the email. But this seems to be a different ball game. Although I have managed to get the radio buttons working I can not program in Php. I thought I got close on a number of occasions with the check box and had an email that displayed "Array" instead of the checked box values. Now I an quite confused. If any one could help with some Php for this I would be most grateful. This is my form without the submit side of it.
<label><input type="checkbox" name="Credit[]" value="Amex" />
Amex</label>
<br />
<label><input type="checkbox" name="Credit[]" value="Diners"/>
Diners</label>
<br />
<label><input type="checkbox" name="Credit[]" value="Debit Card"/ >
Debit Card </label>
<br />
<label><input type="checkbox" name="Credit[]" value="Mastercard" />
Mastercard</label>
<br />
<label><input type="checkbox" name="Credit[]" value="None" />
None</label>
<br />
<label><input type="checkbox" name="Credit[]" value="Visa" />
Visa</label>Many Thanks
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avido posted this at 14:49 — 10th March 2010.
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My best guess is you're using the same name for every checkbox..
just change the names of the checkboxes and you'll be fine.
You'll receive it in your email probably like (for example) visa=checked
bigmax posted this at 00:02 — 13th March 2010.
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Alternatively to what avido wrote, you might also simply expand the checkbox array with a loop (say foreach $chk[] as $value) and get the checked values from there. Don't forget to name your checkbox accordingly though, using the square brackets in your submit form.
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Greg K posted this at 20:28 — 14th March 2010.
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For using checkboxes with PHP, this IS what you need to do so that when it goes back to PHP, gets converted over to array. (the suare brackets are required too).
I starts putting together a sample form to demonstrate it, well it balloned into a full "contact us" tutorial/sample. See it here: http://www.webmaster-forums.net/web-programming-and-application-developm...
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hamdusa posted this at 19:25 — 26th April 2010.
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if you find arrays difficult to handle, then you should not use the names as you used in your script. Instead try the following:
<label><input type="checkbox" name="amex" value="yes" />Amex</label>
<br />
<label><input type="checkbox" name="diners" value="yes"/>
Diners</label>
<br />
<label><input type="checkbox" name="debit_card" value="yes" />
Debit Card </label>
<br />
<label><input type="checkbox" name="mastercard" value="yes" />
Mastercard</label>
<br />
<label><input type="checkbox" name="none" value="yes" />
None</label>
<br />
<label><input type="checkbox" name="visa" value="yes" />
Visa</label>
Although in this case you will need to do it manually. If you can post here more details and the whole script, we will be in a better position to help you solve this problem.
sandeep Kumar posted this at 07:21 — 8th July 2010.
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Joined: Jun 2010
Hi, that's fine and i suggest you jut "visit w3schools.com", for more help.
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