How to retrieve checkbox array values?

[Greg Eyres]

Apologies if this is a stupid question ... I'm new to this PHP world!

I have got an html form that has checkboxes dynamically created from MySQL. I use an array to create the list of checkboxes. A user will then check the box as appropriate and I want to store the values. However, only the 1st checkbox value in the array is being retrieved when I hit the submit button.

Would really appreciate an guidance. Thanks

Here is my html code snippet:

<table cellpadding="2px" cellspacing="1px" bgcolor="#FFFFDD"" width="600px" class="tableBorder" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#FFCC66">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>   
    <tr>
        <td colspan="2" class="label">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="label" align="left" width="500"><?php echo $rquesttext; ?></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td class="normalTextgrey" align="left"><?php echo $rquestdesc; ?></td>
    </tr>
    <?php foreach ($answers as $answer): ?>
        <form action="?editquestion" method="post">
        <tr class="smallTextBlack">
            <p><input type="hidden" name="rparentid" value="<?php echo $answer['apid']; ?>"/></p
            <p><input type="hidden" name="rsubid" value="<?php echo $answer['asid']; ?>"/></p>
            <td align="left" valign=top>
                <input type="checkbox" name="chitems[]" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($answer['atext'], ENT_QUOTES,'UTF-8'); ?>">
                <?php echo htmlspecialchars($answer['atext'], ENT_QUOTES,'UTF-8'); ?>
            </td>
        </tr>
        </form>
    <?php endforeach; ?> <br />
    <tr>
        <td align="center"><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit1" /></td>
    </tr>                   
    <tr>
        <td colspan="2" class="label">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>                   
</table>
 

And here is my php code:

if (isset($_POST['submit1']))
{
$box=$_POST['chitems'];
while (list ($key,$val) = @each ($box)) { 
echo "$val,"; 
} 
    exit();
}
 

[HaLo2FrEeEk]

You're printing a new form for each checkbox, they need to all be in the same form. That means this line:

<form action="?editquestion" method="post">

Needs to go before the foreach, and his line:

</form>

Needs to go after the endforeach.