Hello All, I'm realy new to PHP I have a WebPage that is creation checkbox from a file like this .

<?
$filename = "Jim.txt";
$fp = fopen($filename,"r");
while (!feof($fp))
{
$line = fgets($fp, 4096);
if ($line != null)
{
print "<input type=checkbox name=server[] id=server vaulue=$line>$line";
}
}
fclose($fp);
?>

The problem I'm having is that I can't read the array on the next web page. I know most of the other files I do a $var=$_GET['variable']; but that is not working any help would be great
Thanks

HTML does not "naturally" work with arrays. You are trying to use the name of the checkboxes as an arrat name=server[]. That will not work because once you write it to the page, it is HTML and not PHP.

However, I believe you can have data passed from mutiple fields into a single comma delimited value (at least it works for text boxes and I suspect it will work with checkboxes as well.

Try changing the name of the field to just server without the brackets. You should be able to get the value of all the checkboxes with $_GET['server'] BUT, it will not be in an array. It will come across as a single value in this format "value1,value2,value3, etc. You can then put the values into an arry using the explode command like this: explode(",",$_GET['server']);

However, one last caveat (which you may or may not be aware of). I don't believe that an unchecked checkbox will transfer any value at all. For example, if checkbox 2 had no value you would receive the results: value1,value3 and NOT value1,,value3.

Michael J

Thanks for the reply I will give it a try