Member Avatar for TLCJohn

Hi all,

Sorry about this but, I need some help ASAP. I have been working on a form all day, which I built in dreamweaver CS4. Here is where I need help, on the form have a list of options in the form of checkboxes Buttons BUT when the form is sent back onlu one of the options is listed. below is the code for a test form, and this works in the same way. What am I doing wrong.

Thaanks in advance.

John

HTML CODE----------------------

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>only one working out of list
</head>

<body>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="test.php">
<p>
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="test" value="Bus" id="test_0" />
Bus</label>
<br />
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="test" value="Car" id="test_1" />
Car</label>
<br />
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="test" value="Bike" id="test_2" />
Bike</label>
<br />
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="test" value="Coach" id="test_3" />
Coach</label>
<br />
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="test" value="Taxi" id="test_4" />
Taxi</label>
<br />
</p>
</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>
<input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Submit" />
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>


PHP CODE --------------------------------
<?php


// Receiving variables
@$pfw_ip= $_SERVER;
@$test = addslashes($_POST);

// Validation
//Sending Email to form owner
$pfw_header = "From: $test\n"
. "Reply-To: $test\n";
$pfw_subject = "test form";
$pfw_email_to = "Email address";
$pfw_message = "Visitor's IP: $pfw_ip\n"
. "vehicle: $test\n";
@mail($pfw_email_to, $pfw_subject ,$pfw_message ,$pfw_header ) ;

header("Location: thankyou.html");

?>

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Member Avatar for vaultdweller123

make your checkboxes an array

<input type="checkbox" name="test[]" value="Taxi" id="test_4" />

once they're stored on array you can easily traverse using foreach()

foreach($_POST['test'] as $index => $val){
echo "test[".$index."]=".$val; // just testing the value
}
Member Avatar for TLCJohn

Hi vaultdweller123

is there any chance, you can put some more explanation into the code. You have very kindly posted?

Kind regards John

Member Avatar for rajarajan2017

HTML CODE

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>CheckBoxes</title>only one working out of list
</head>

<body>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="test.php">
<p>
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="test[]" value="Bus" id="test_0" />
Bus</label>
<br />
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="test[]" value="Car" id="test_1" />
Car</label>
<br />
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="test[]" value="Bike" id="test_2" />
Bike</label>
<br />
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="test[]" value="Coach" id="test_3" />
Coach</label>
<br />
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="test[]" value="Taxi" id="test_4" />
Taxi</label>
<br />
</p>
</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>
<input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Submit" />
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

PHP CODE:

<?php
foreach($_POST['test'] as $index => $val){
echo "test[".$index."]=".$val;
}
?>

Just test it. you will catch the point!

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