Posted by Tom on 12/11/06 18:27

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:27:36 +0000, Geoff Berrow wrote...
>
>Message-ID: <1165824944.590557.238040@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com> from
>ameshkin contained the following:
>
>>On the second page, whch is the form actin, I simply want to iterate
>>through and pull which values are checked and run a sql command for
>>each value.
>>
>>I have no idea how to do this. I assume you willl have to use a for
>>each statement, but am having trouble programming this.
>
>There is a clever little trick you can use. For your checkboxes you
>give them a name like this
>
><input type='checkbox. name='del[]' value='3435'>
>
>where value is the id of the record you want to delete.
>
>By using the square brackets, all the values are conveniently placed in
>an array. So here is the foreach (untested):
>
>foreach($_POST['del'] as $value){
>//ideally do some checking that the value is one that the user is
>// allowed to delete here
>$sql="DELETE from table WHERE id=$value";
> if(mysql_query($sql)){
> echo "record id $value deleted<br>";
> }
> else{
> echo "Could not delete record id $value<br>";
> }
>}
>
>


Thanks for the tip Geoff. Nice having all the values in a tidy array.

Tom
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