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

[DC]

how bout this:

echo '<pre>';
print_r($FieldName);
echo '</pre>';

dan

William Akey had written:
> Dale,
> 
> The result of print_r($FieldName); is the single word:
> 
> Array
> 
> Which, if I understand things correctly, is what I would expect since I used
> FieldName[] in the input tag on the preceding page. Is this not correct?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 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 1:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Problem re-submitting checkboxes to FM7
> 
> 
> 
>>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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