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

[William Akey]

Dan,

Using

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

Gives me the word: "Array" as before, but in typewriter font.

William

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DC" <dan.cynosure at dbmscan.com>
To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Problem re-submitting checkboxes to FM7


> 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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