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Posted by mountain.dog@gmail.com on 03/29/07 14:59
Thanks. I had a feeling checkboxes were not going to work. Oh well.
Do think radio buttons would work?
On Mar 29, 9:43 am, Geoff Berrow <blthe...@ckdog.co.uk> wrote:
> Message-ID: <1175177552.525042.244720@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> from
> mountain....@gmail.com contained the following:
>
> >The problem is when the user un-checks a checkbox, the value does not
> >get passed and the DB does not update - set/change it to 0. The only
> >values that get passed are the checkboxes that are checked. Below is
> >the query / code after the submit button has been pressed. Are radio
> >buttons the answer? Any help / suggestions would be very much
> >appreciated.
>
> Checkboxes only return a value if checked. The solution is to make your
> update query update all fields with the default value set to unchecked.
> The unchecked fields will automatically be unchecked because the POSTed
> value will not exist.
>
> Of course you will have to explicitly name your check boxes something
> like <input name='menu_show_attribute[".$row['menu_id']."]'
> type='checkbox'
> class='checkbox')
>
> And of course you won't be able to loop through the array
> $_POST['menu_show_attribute'] because the unchecked values will not
> show. However you could include a hidden field
> <input name='hidden_menu_id[".$row['menu_id']."]' type='hidden'>
>
> Then update your db by looping through $_POST['hidden_menu_id']
>
> --
> Geoff Berrow (put thecat out to email)
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