How-to select items from a list

[MikeB]

I'm trying to do something and I'm sure there is a good technique for
it, but I just can't figure it out.

I have some member records in a database. I want to display a list of
them, and have a checkbox next to each member. One can then click in
the checkboxes for one or more members and the next page should then
take action on the selected members.

I know how to get the members from the database, I know how to create
the form to display each member with a checkbox next to their name.

What I can't figure out is a good method to name/identify the
checkboxes so that the values passed to the next URL can be
programatically processed in a loop.

I'll try and demonstrate:

List:
<form action="sendsms.php">
<table>
<!-- I'm outputting this in a while loop -->
<tr>
<td><input type=checkbox name=?? value=$mem_id></td>
<td>$member_name</td>
</tr>
<!-- end while loop -->
</table>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

I assume that the $id (unique member id) would be a good value for the
checkbox to have, but I don't know what to name the checkbox so that
in the action URL I can loop through the values to process those
selected?

Thanks for any help.

[MikeB]

On Jun 12, 12:31 pm, MikeB <[e-mail]:

I'm trying to do something and I'm sure there is a good technique for
it, but I just can't figure it out.

[snip]

>
Thanks for any help.

I've made some progress with this (Google is good!), but I've got a
little problem I can't figure out. Is there somewhere that I can post
some php code to for people to look at and tell me what I'm doing
wrong? Thanks!

I found some information that indicates that if the name of the
checkbok has square braces ([]) it should be able to get the data from
the $_POST variable with a statement like:

$sendlist=$_POST['sendid'];

However, I come up with nothing in the resulting array.

I can post a sample program if anyone would tell me where and would be
willing to look at it.

Thanks again.

[Jerry Stuckle]

MikeB wrote:

On Jun 12, 12:31 pm, MikeB <[e-mail]:

>I'm trying to do something and I'm sure there is a good technique for
it, but I just can't figure it out.

[snip]

>Thanks for any help.

I've made some progress with this (Google is good!), but I've got a
little problem I can't figure out. Is there somewhere that I can post
some php code to for people to look at and tell me what I'm doing
wrong? Thanks!

I found some information that indicates that if the name of the
checkbok has square braces ([]) it should be able to get the data from
the $_POST variable with a statement like:

$sendlist=$_POST['sendid'];

However, I come up with nothing in the resulting array.

I can post a sample program if anyone would tell me where and would be
willing to look at it.

Thanks again.

Just post it here. If it's large, trim it down to a manageable size
that shows the problem.

But if you have:

<input type=checkbox name='sendid[]' value=$mem_id>

$_POST['sendid'] will be an array with one element for each checked
checkbox. Unchecked boxes will not send their value.

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[MikeB]

On Jun 12, 2:52 pm, Jerry Stuckle <[e-mail]:

MikeB wrote:

On Jun 12, 12:31 pm, MikeB <[e-mail]:

I'm trying to do something and I'm sure there is a good technique for
it, but I just can't figure it out.

[snip]

Thanks for any help.

I've made some progress with this (Google is good!), but I've got a
little problem I can't figure out. Is there somewhere that I can post
some php code to for people to look at and tell me what I'm doing
wrong? Thanks!

I found some information that indicates that if the name of the
checkbok has square braces ([]) it should be able to get the data from
the $_POST variable with a statement like:

$sendlist=$_POST['sendid'];

However, I come up with nothing in the resulting array.

I can post a sample program if anyone would tell me where and would be
willing to look at it.

Thanks again.

Just post it here. If it's large, trim it down to a manageable size
that shows the problem.

But if you have:

<input type=checkbox name='sendid[]' value=$mem_id>

$_POST['sendid'] will be an array with one element for each checked
checkbox. Unchecked boxes will not send their value.

Finally figured this out. A really dumb (newbie?) mistake.

I was using "Get" as the method for the form, so that I could see the
parameters being passed in the URL. Obviously $_POST doesn't see those
parameters, but $_GET does.

So it's all fixed now.