Posted by Andy Jeffries on 03/24/06 18:41

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:34:51 -0800, fiziwig wrote:
> I can do
>
> <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="cb123" VALUE="on">Category Description
> <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="cb137" VALUE="on">Category Description
>
> Where "123", and "137" in the example are the category keys from the SQL
> table, but then how would the page that recieves those values know which
> possible variable names to look for?

foreach ($_POST as $key=>$value) {
if (ereg("cb([0-9]+)", $key, $matches)) {
print "You checked ID $matches[1]";
}
}

Cheers,


Andy


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