Posted by Timothy Larson on 02/02/06 12:03

info@octavum.com wrote:
> novice....

Me too...

> i started a php site in dreamweaver and i try fill data into MySql
> database.
>
> i set up a page with a form and i can fill in all the fields.
>
> just for one field, i like to have several checkboxes. every checkbox
> has a value, and they should fill the same field with their vale when
> checked. i also want to keep my text box, so i can write additional
> information.
>
> at the moment, when i click more than one checkbox, only the value of
> the first checkbox appears in the database. also, if there is already
> some data in this cell, it delete previous data, but i would like to
> keep it. preferably it should just add to information allready in the
> database.

PHP can understand a field like this as an array. But it seems that you
have to explicitly warn PHP that it might be receiving an array value by
naming the field "xyz[]" instead of simply "xyz" in your HTML.

Tim

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