[ptamzz]

can anyone please explain how to get the checked box from a form with checkboxes using post method??

or please direct me to a good tutorial for it suitable for a beginners level...

thanks

[JackOfAllTrades]

You mean, like this one in our tutorials area?

[ptamzz]

Yes but i am still confused with a few things.

What do we get in the global variable $_POST[checkBoxName]??? Is is an array of the checked items or on/off state or something else??

Thanks

[atik97]

Look at the lines below-

<input type="checkbox" name="status"/>Agree
<input type="checkbox" name="status" value="agree"/>Agree

In the first case, $_POST["status"] will hold the value "on" if the box is checked. On the other hand, second case it will hold the value of "agree" in case it is checked and submitted. So you might have already idea that the default value of checkbox is on/off, but when value attribute is present in <input> tag, that value will be hold on the variable when it is enabled.

[ptamzz]

Thank you. That clears me up a lot.

One more thing. If I select multiple checkboxes, what do i check in the processing part??

something like,

if(isset($_POST['status']){
      $names = $_POST['status'];
}

will this store the values of all the checkboxes in the $name variable in the form of an array???

[atik97]

Yes, all the values will be stored in the $names array.

As you might already know, in case of multiple checkbox, you need to use name attribute like this-

<input type="checkbox" name="status[]" value="value1">Value1
<input type="checkbox" name="status[]" value="value2">Value2

Then in the processing script, $_POST["status"] will contain all the checked values in the form of array.