I'm new to PHP and have been away from HTML for a while. I'm trying to learn some PHP as I build a fairly small set of pages. I've used JSP before so am familiar PHP's style. I'm using my PHP book as a reference even tho I probably should just sit down and read it.

I have a PHP page with a FORM that contains a bunch of checkboxes. The name of all the checkboxes is 'state'. The values are 2 letter state codes (NE, IA, MO, etc).

When I submit the form, I want to build a list of all of the states that were checked.

When I print the value of $state, I get one state, probably the last one checked. I was hoping to get a comma separated list.

I realized that I could name each checkbox different, but then I'd have to run thru the list of all 40 - 50 states to see which were checked.

Is there a better way?

Thanks

Remember that checkboxes with the same name work in a group, and the form will pass their value as an array. However, in your form you should tell explicitly that the checkboxes should pass their value as an array.

For example:

<input type="checkbox" name="state[]" value="NE">

<input type="checkbox" name="state[]" value="IA">

<input type="checkbox" name="state[]" value="MO">

So in your case your script should loop through all the elements in the area to see if the box was checked or not.

For example:

<?php
$state=$_POST['state'];
foreach ($state as $statename)
{
echo "$statename is checked";
}

?>

Good luck!

Thanks Khalid - worked like a charm