Posted by Jordan Miller on 08/18/05 00:28

Sorry, I believe you are mistaken here... you *can* specify a value
for each checkbox and have it come through. I have written scripts
that do this, and here is another example:
http://www.tizag.com/phpT/examples/formex.php/

all zedleon needs to do is add the correct value parameter to each
checkbox.

Jordan


On Aug 17, 2005, at 3:57 PM, <php-mail@chrome.me.uk> wrote:

> Sorry I should clarify... checkboxes don't send their values
> through they
> send their names and states... so if you have the array:
>
> Name="qmev[1]"... name="qmev[2]"... name="qmev[3]"
>
> And your array contains
>
> [1] => on : [3] => on
>
> 1 and 3 are selected
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: zedleon [mailto:support@passeycorp.com]
> Sent: 17 August 2005 21:30
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Help correcting a form mailer problem...
>
> thanks for the reply...
> after using the print_r($_POST['gmev']); and selecting all the
> checkboxes to
> send to the form
> the return is Array ( [0] => on [1] => on [2] => on [3] => on ). So
> the
> values are missing.....
> don't really know how to proceed at this point.
> any help is appreciated.
>
>
> "Joe Wollard" <joe.wollard@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:2AAC4C87-2BAD-4E8A-B08B-E26C533F6F18@gmail.com...
>
>> I would first start out by dumping the values of $_POST['gmev'] by
>> using
>>
>> print_r($_POST['gmev']);
>>
>> Sounds to me like you're not getting the data that your expecting
>> from the form for some reason. Maybe $_POST['gmev'] is an array of
>> null values?
>>
>> -Good Luck
>>
>> On Aug 17, 2005, at 12:15 PM, zedleon wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I previously built a sticky form with dynamic checkbox
>>> array's.........
>>> The form works beautifully thanks to help from Jochem Mass and
>>> Kathleen
>>> Ballard.
>>>
>>> I now have a slightly different problem...I have built an email
>>> form to send
>>> the form data.
>>> I copied and used the following code which works great in the sticky
>>> form.....
>>>
>>>
>>> if (isset($_POST['gmev']) && is_array($_POST['gmev'])) {
>>>
>>> foreach ($_POST['gmev'] as $gmev_day) {
>>>
>>> print "<p>You have registered for the: <b>$gmev_day</b> Good
>>> Morning East
>>> Valley Event.</p>";
>>> }
>>>
>>> } else {
>>>
>>> print 'You are not registered for any events!';
>>>
>>> }
>>>
>>> The results is this:
>>> "You have registered for the: September 9th Good Morning
>>> East
>>> Valley Event."
>>>
>>> Now when I use the same code modified for the form mailer I am
>>> getting this
>>> result.
>>>
>>> if (isset($_POST['gmev']) && is_array($_POST['gmev'])) {
>>>
>>> foreach ($_POST['gmev'] as $gmev_day) {
>>>
>>> $msg .= "You have registered for the: $gmev_day Good Morning East
>>> Valley
>>> Event.\n";
>>> }
>>>
>>> } else {
>>>
>>> $mgs .= "You are not registered for any events!";
>>> }
>>>
>>> result is - "You have registered for the: on Good Morning
>>> East
>>> Valley Event."
>>>
>>> I am missing the value of the variable even though I am receiving
>>> all the
>>> instances of the variables from the checkboxes. When they are
>>> selected, they
>>> are present.
>>>
>>> I really don't know what to do about correcting the problem. Any
>>> guidance
>>> here would really be appreciated....and...go easy on me...I am new
>>> to PHP
>>>
>>> Thanks before hand...
>>>
>>> zedleon
>>>
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