I'm working with a form builder and the user can create multiple sections of checkboxes. When there is just one section, the checked values get sent fine.
When there are two or more different checkbox sections, the sent value appends the previously checked value in the previous checkbox section like this:
Checkbox section 1 = test 1
Checkbox section 2 = test 1,Air Conditioning
Checkbox section 3 = test 1,Air Conditioning,second 1
In other words, the 2nd and 3rd checkboxes should not include the previous value.
I'm close on this, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
Here is the HTML for this. You can see each has its own array:
HTML
Checkbox section 1
<input type="checkbox" name="txt5[]" value="test 1">test 1
<input type="checkbox" name="txt5[]" value="test 2">test 2
<input type="checkbox" name="txt5[]" value="test 3">test 3
<input type="checkbox" name="txt5[]" value="test 4">test 4
Checkbox section 2
<input type="checkbox" name="txt6[]" value="Air Conditioning">Air Conditioning
<input type="checkbox" name="txt6[]" value="Plumbing">Plumbing
<input type="checkbox" name="txt6[]" value="Mechanical">Mechanical
Checkbox section 3
<input type="checkbox" name="txt7[]" value="second 1">second 1
<input type="checkbox" name="txt7[]" value="second 2">second 2
<input type="checkbox" name="txt7[]" value="second 3">second 3
<input type="checkbox" name="txt7[]" value="second 4">second 4
PHP - In the part of PHP code below, you can see a section that checks if it is an array and then loops through the items. The problem is it's not removing the previously checked item in the previous array:
$str_mail_cont="<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body style=\"background-color:#f1f2f2; margin-top:10px;\">
<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF; border-top: none; font-family:Verdana; line-height:20px; font-size:9pt\" bordercolor=\"#111111\" width=\"95%\" id=\"AutoNumber1\">
<tr>
<td colspan='2' align=left><U><b>".$form_title."</b></U></td>
</tr>";
while($result_fld = mysql_fetch_array($rs_flds))
{
$amm = 'txt'.$num;
$fld_name=$result_fld['field_name'];
$temp = $_POST[$amm];
if(is_array($temp) && count($temp)>=1)
{
$str_mail_filed="<tr><td align='left' width='30%'><b>".$fld_name." :</b></td><td align='left'>";
$str_mail_cont.=$str_mail_filed;
for($k=0;$k<count($temp);$k++)
{
$chkbox_str .= $temp[$k].', ';
}
$chkbox_str = trim($chkbox_str, ', ');
$str_mail_cont .= $chkbox_str;
$str_mail_cont.="</td>";
}
else
{
$str_mail_cont.="<tr><td><b>".$fld_name." :</b></td><td align='left'> ".$temp."</td></tr>";
}
$num++;
}
$str_mail_cont.="</table>
</body>
</html>";
}
The end result is it sends an email with this:
Test Items : test 1
Reason(s) For Request : test 1Air Conditioning
More Tests : test 1Air Conditioningsecond 1
Thanks for any help!
Some extra info.. This is a result of var_dump($temp)
array(1) {
[0]=> string(6) "test 1"
}
array(1) {
[0]=> string(16) "Air Conditioning"
}
array(1) {
[0]=> string(8) "second 1"
}
ANSWER: I figured this out. I simply added a variable declaration above the part where it loops each checkbox array like this:
$chkbox_str ='';
It works as expected now!
implode(), much better than the way you're doing it.$checkbox_str = implode(', ', $temp). In fact, this may solve your initial problem all together – Phil Sep 10 '13 at 1:20E_NOTICElevel errors at least. In yourphp.inifile;display_errors = Onanderror_reporting = E_ALL– Phil Sep 10 '13 at 1:21