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