Hello, so I am getting closer to finally completing my form.

However, I need it so that the US states in my form are able to retrieve the VALUE section of it.

http://bayardclient.com/fastaff/shor...layout_new.php

For example, in my html code, I have each set up as follows:

<input class="validate[minCheckbox[1]] checkbox" type="checkbox" name="[states]" id="Arkansas" value="AR"/> Arkansas
<input class="validate[minCheckbox[1]] checkbox" type="checkbox" name="[states]" id="California" value="CA"/> California

and in the PHP, I have it set up like:
<?php session_start(); {
if(isset($_POST['Submit']))
$states = $_POST['states'];


but it doesn't seem to be working. That is how i have set up the other fields on my form, with the

$name = $_POST['name'];

Can some one please possibly steer me in the right direction?? Would be very appreciative.

Give them all the same name, without the [] and the checked values will be submitted as a comma seperated string.

Edit: Chris got there before me :P

Edit2: Although, I believe you can also end the name with empty brackets to have php automatically create an array with the selected boxes' values? As in:

<input type="checkbox" name="states[]" ... />

Hey Guys, thanks for the reply, but that still doesn't seem to be working, using Chris' suggestion only takes 1 state, and it's the last one the user clicked on. Also tried lizciz' suggestion, but no luck there either.

This is how they are set up now in the HTML

<input class="validate[minCheckbox[1]] checkbox" type="checkbox" name="states" id="Alabama" value="AR"/> Alabama
<input class="validate[minCheckbox[1]] checkbox" type="checkbox" name="states" id="Alaska" value="AK"/> Alaska
<input class="validate[minCheckbox[1]] checkbox" type="checkbox" name="states" id="Arizona" value="AZ"/> Arizona
<input class="validate[minCheckbox[1]] checkbox" type="checkbox" name="states" id="Arkansas" value="AR"/> Arkansas
<input class="validate[minCheckbox[1]] checkbox" type="checkbox" name="states" id="California" value="CA"/> California

In PHP:

$states = $_POST['states'];



States they have an active license:

'.$states.'

ok, update... so when I use lizciz's method

<input type="checkbox" name="states[]" ... />

<input class="validate[minCheckbox[1]] checkbox" type="checkbox" name="states[]" id="NewYork" value="NY"/> New York

when I push submit on the form, in the email that comes through, the output is

"Array" for the states. Really not sure what I am doing wrong, I feel like I am so close...

IN the mailer_new.php file, the way that it's set up is like this.

$states = $_POST['states']; .... I think I might need something else so that it shows the array values??

Sorry, been doing a ton of googling tonight for this but it doesn't seem like it's as easy as I would have thought. Any ideas?

Thanks a lot for the help earlier, much appreciated.

FIGURED THIS OUT.

needed to put $states .= implode(', ', $_POST['states']); instead of that code I mentioned in the post before.

phew.

Thanks for the help guys, definitely got the ball rolling.


Not gunna lie, a lot of this stuff doesn't make a whole lof of sense to me. How do you know of all these crazy parts of php? I would have never thought to put that on my own... I guess what I'm asking, is what is the best way to learn that aspect of php? Really need to know how it all works.