[FX.php List] Problem re-submitting checkboxes to FM7

[Dale Bengston]

William,

I was driving at the same thing Dan is; does $FieldName contain the  
values you think it should? I thought it might be as simple as a  
coding error. So, what do you get when you print_r($FieldName)?

Dale

On May 11, 2006, at 2:48 PM, William Akey wrote:

> Hi Dale,
>
> Thanks for your response. Sorry, I figured that would be  
> understood. When I
> said I was submitting $FieldName back to the database, I meant the  
> result of
> using:
>
> $FieldName = $_POST['FieldName'];
>
> on the page where I am actually doing the FMEdit().
>
> William
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dale Bengston" <dbengston at preservationstudio.com>
> To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 12:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Problem re-submitting checkboxes to FM7
>
>
>> Hi William,
>>
>> By $FieldName do you actually mean $_POST['FieldName']?
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> On May 11, 2006, at 2:26 PM, William Akey wrote:
>>
>>> A while ago, there was some good discussion about how to properly
>>> display a
>>> series of checkboxes on a web page. Thanks to those discussions and
>>> the use
>>> of the explode() and in_array() functions I have been able to get  
>>> this
>>> working correctly.
>>>
>>> What I cannot get to work correctly is the return of the edited
>>> checkbox
>>> data to the FM7 database. If I set up the input elements as:
>>>
>>> <input type="checkbox" name="FieldName[]" value="nine" checked >
>>> <input type="checkbox" name="FieldName[]" value="ten" checked >
>>>
>>> and then use implode("\n", $FieldName) before submitting it back to
>>> the
>>> database with FMEdit(), I get a PHP bad argument warning for the
>>> implode()
>>> function and the data in FileName in the database is erased. If I
>>> do not use
>>> implode() before submitting $FieldName, then FieldName in the
>>> database ends
>>> up with the word "Array" in it and the other values are gone.
>>>
>>> If I use FieldName in the input tag, without the "[]", and do not  
>>> use
>>> implode(), then only the last checked value gets submitted to the
>>> database
>>> and the others are deleted.
>>>
>>> It seems that using FieldName[] in the input tag and implode("\n",
>>> $FieldName) in combination should work, but it doesn't. So, what am
>>> I doing
>>> wrong and how do I get this to work correctly??
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help you can offer.
>>>
>>> William
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