Re: Retrieving URL of webpage etc.

2009/8/9 Jacob Kruger <[email protected]>:
> Hi there
>
> I'm specifically doing something like displaying search results up to 50
> records, and I would like to be able to provide something like a checkbox
> next to each of them to allow multiple records to then be deleted at one
> time, but the problem seems to be that either either checkbox needs to be
> assigned a different name, or else I would need to be able to parse the URL
> of the resulting page when the form is submitted since I don't seem to be
> able to access something like an array of values for a form field with the
> shared name of the multiple checkboxes, since while it will allow me to read
> from an array for the name of that form field:
> $_GET['chkBox'][0]
>
> It tells me the count for that array is only 1, and always returns the last
> checked value.
>
> Therefore, I could either try use something like javascript to populate a
> hidden form field with the various values when the checkboxes are checked,
> or else could try just doing something like parsing the querystring/URL
> since it does get populated with something like:
> chkBox=1&chkBox=2
>
> for example...
>
> Any thoughts on this, and thoughts on what would be the best workaround?
>
> TIA
>
> Jacob Kruger
> Blind Biker
> Skype: BlindZA
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Say the ID of the row from the DB is held in $a_Row['ID'].

Make the name of the checkbox ...

name="delete[{$a_Row['ID']}]"

Now, $_POST['delete'] will be an array of IDs to delete.

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