today i had a challenge which i had never done before.

have you seen websiste that have multiple checkboxes in their forms and select which choices you want and to ignore the rest

for example, lets say i have a form that looks like this:

please choose your favorite color:

Red
Blue
Green
Yellow
Orange
Black


as you can see from my form, you can choose which colors you like and i want to have a mysql query where only the boxes that are checked i want to update and ignore that ones that are not checked.

its easy, you have to give the name of the input to an array, for example like this:

<input type="checkbox" name="colors[]" value="1"> Red

so this will create an array and all i have to do is update the ones that have values in the array. so my array would look like if i select Red and Blue only: OUTPUT

    [colors] => Array
        (
            [0] => Red
            [1] => Blue
        )

once you have submited you can use a loop to put it all together:

PHP CODE:

for($counter =0; $counter < count($_POST['colors']); $counter++) {
		if(!$Selected) $Selected = $_POST['colors'][$counter];
		else $Selected .= ','.$_POST['colors'][$counter];		
	}

the query would look like this:

$Query = "UPDATE MyColors SET colors='active' WHERE ColorChoices in ('".$Selected."');

if you want to see the complete script, download from this post in the attachments below