Posted by Brent Baisley on 10/21/34 11:33

You should have posted this to a javascript board, it has nothing to
do with PHP. That said, if the form field name contains special
characters, like [], you can reference it like this:
document.formname.elements['checkbox1[]'].

Use the elements[] reference style.

On Dec 1, 2005, at 12:42 PM, Kelly Meeks wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I'm hoping someone can help me with this problem.
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> I'm using javascript for some client side field validation in a form
> (method=post) that gets managed via php.
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> This particular form makes extensive use of checkboxes. I've
> always like
> how when named properly (field name of "checkbox1[ ]"), php will
> pass that
> variable as an array that contains all the values selected in the
> form.
> Very handy. BUT,
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> How do you then reference that variable via javascript to do any
> client-side
> validation? The code I use makes reference to the field's id, and
> it still
> doesn't seem to check things properly.
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> Is there any way around this, or what am I missing?
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> TIA,
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> Kelly
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