[FX.php List] Suggestions on editing a list of check boxes

Tue Sep 2 09:58:42 MDT 2008

foreach( $_REQUEST["RecID"] as $tmpRecID ) {
      // What to do for each $tmpRecID
}

ggt667

2008/9/2 Gjermund Gusland Thorsen <ggt667 at gmail.com>:
> Suggestion
> ---
> echo '<input type="hidden" name="RecID[]"  value="' . $RecID . '">';
> ---
>
> ggt667
>
> 2008/9/2 John Funk <csinfo at comcast.net>:
>> Chris your suggestion works great for sending the data to POST but how do I
>> extract the data? Once I have the data in a variable (not an array) I know
>> what to do.
>> My field to send data:
>> echo "<input type=hidden name=RecID[]  value=".$RecID.">";
>>
>> My code to get the array:
>> $RecIDs = array($_REQUEST["RecID"]);
>>
>> How do I extract the data with foreach()?
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
>> [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Gjermund Gusland
>> Thorsen
>> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 3:00 PM
>> To: FX.php Discussion List
>> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Suggestions on editing a list of check boxes
>>
>> That approach name="myArray[]" in combination with recid can make you
>> achieve some serious stuff.
>>
>> ggt
>>
>> 2008/9/1 Chris Hansen <chris at iviking.org>:
>>> John,
>>>
>>> Bob is right about checkbox naming (if you're not careful, you'll end up
>>> with only that last value in the list), but there's a very elegant way to
>>> handle this: name your checkbox element with empty square brackets.
>>>
>>> <input type='checkbox' name='my_checkbox[]' value='some_value' />
>>>
>>> What this does, is cause PHP to automagically assemble all checkbox values
>>> for a given set into an array.  Neat, eh?  Just be sure to check that
>> values
>>> were submitted before stepping through that PHP array with foreach() or
>>> you'll get an error.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> --Chris Hansen
>>>  FileMaker 7/8/9 Certified Developer
>>>  Creator of FX.php
>>>  "The best way from FileMaker to the Web."
>>>  www.iViking.org
>>>
>>> On Sep 1, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Bob Patin wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi John,
>>>>
>>>> I thought we talked about this the other day...
>>>>
>>>> I have my own method, which works great; I'm sure there are other
>> methods,
>>>> but this one is fairly easy:
>>>>
>>>> On your form:
>>>>
>>>> If you are creating a dynamic set of checkboxes, you'll need to make sure
>>>> each checkbox's name is unique. I do this with a counter:
>>>>
>>>> $counter = 0;
>>>>
>>>> Then, in a FOREACH loop, generate your checkbox HTML code, and make the
>>>> name end with the counter variable:
>>>>
>>>> name="myCheckbox_<?php echo $counter; ?>"
>>>>
>>>> I use an underscore just to make it easy for me to read...
>>>>
>>>> Then, after this FOREACH loop, put an invisible field that contains the
>>>> value of $counter; you'll use this on the processing page.
>>>> ---------------
>>>> ON THE PROCESSING PAGE:
>>>>
>>>> //retrieve the value of your COUNTER variable
>>>> $counter = $_POST['counter'];
>>>>
>>>> Retrieve the checkbox values by using a WHILE loop:
>>>>
>>>> $x = 0;
>>>> while ($x < $counter){
>>>>        $myCheckboxList = $_POST['myCheckbox_'.$x].'<br>';
>>>>        $x++;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Then, in your EDIT query, write the value of $myCheckboxList to your
>>>> checkbox field.
>>>>
>>>> I'm doing this all from memory, but that's essentially how I do it. You
>>>> don't really need to use an array, since you're grabbing the checkbox
>> values
>>>> and assembling them into a list that you'll write to the field.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this makes sense; I'm too lazy to dig up one of my pages and copy
>> out
>>>> the code...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Bob Patin
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>>>>
>>>> On Sep 1, 2008, at 10:52 AM, John Funk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have HTML form that list the results of an FM query in a check box
>>>>> format.
>>>>> I would like to then send that list (all (records with user changes)
>> back
>>>>> to
>>>>> the same FM layout (table) with FMEdit().
>>>>> Can anybody give an example for capturing, sending and getting arrays of
>>>>> data between php files, then parsing to edit the records? I understand
>>>>> the
>>>>> FMEdit() part.
>>>>>
>>>>> My form part to show to check list:
>>>>> $RecID=$record['RecordID'][0];
>>>>> $Category=$record['Category'][0];
>>>>> $YrSelected=$record[' YrSelected'][0];
>>>>>
>>>>> echo "<input name=RecID type=hidden value=".$RecID.">";
>>>>> echo "<input name=YrSelected type=checkbox value=".$YrSelected;
>>>>>
>>>>> if ($YrSelected >"")
>>>>>
>>>>> echo " checked>".$Category."<br>";
>>>>> else
>>>>> echo " unchecked>".$Category."<br>";
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This seems so simple but the more I work on it the more I get screwed
>> up.
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> John Funk
>>>>>
>>>>>
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