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I have a form with many checkboxes.

ex.

...
<input name="dodatkowe[]"  type="checkbox" value="1" />
<input name="dodatkowe[]"  type="checkbox" value="1" />
<input name="dodatkowe[]"  type="checkbox" value="1" />
...

I want to have all the checkboxes in the array. Array 'dodatkowe'.

When i checked all checkboxes have:

Array ( [0] => 1 [1] => 1 [2] => 1 )

but when i checked example only second I have:

Array ( [0] => 1 )

I need that, when i check example second checkbox:

Array ( [0] => 0 [1] => 1 [2] => 0)
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Browsers only submit checked checkboxes, so you will never see values for unchecked checkboxes. –  Neil Jan 11 '12 at 21:27

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If a checkbox isn't checked it won't include it's value into the parameters but the first step would be to give the checkboxes a unique id:

<input name="dodatkowe[0]"  type="checkbox" value="1" />
<input name="dodatkowe[1]"  type="checkbox" value="1" />
<input name="dodatkowe[2]"  type="checkbox" value="1" />

Then you can use PHP to check is the value is there:

$maxfields = 3;
$selectboxes = $_REQUEST['dodatkowe'];
for($i = 0; $i < $maxfields; $i++)
  if(!isset($selectboxes[$i])) $selectboxes[$i] = 0;

This will set all non existent fields to 0 and $selectboxes should contain the result you are looking for.

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Not sure I like (or would reccomend) directly modifying the $_REQUEST... might get confusing, depending on what further processing you need to do with submitted values. –  jondavidjohn Jan 11 '12 at 21:31
    
True... you might want to consider to copy that over to another variable before... –  bardiir Jan 11 '12 at 21:32
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give them indexes so you can reference them specifically...

...
<input name="dodatkowe[1]"  type="checkbox" value="1" />
<input name="dodatkowe[2]"  type="checkbox" value="1" />
<input name="dodatkowe[3]"  type="checkbox" value="1" />
...

Not sure why you feel you need to see the unchecked values, this can be assumed to be the inverse of the checked values.... Any attempt to do this is a hack, and is unnecessary.

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Possibly, each preceded by a: <input name="dodatkowe[1]" type="hidden" value=0"> (alter the number after dodatkowe[ accordingly of course). –  Wrikken Jan 11 '12 at 21:25

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