On Friday 21 December 2001 00:40, SpyProductions Support Team wrote: > I've looked around in a few of the PHP lists for an answer to this, but > can't come up with one. > > Here's what I am doing: > > I have a form with a few checkboxes. > > When the information as to whether the checkboxes are checked or not is > 'saved' into the MySQL table, they are represented by a value of '1' - > fine. > > When I want to edit this information, in the form of a similar form with > checkboxes, the boxes are not checked off if they were before. > > What I am stuck on is how a checkbox can get checked off when pulling > information from the MySQL as an array. > > Here's a line of code showing my array coming out. > > <input type=checkbox name=firstvalue value='$result[32]'> > > $result is the array. > > I guess what I am asking is that if a checkbox is assigned a value of one, > why doesn't it appear as already checked off?
value='XXX' only specifies what the value would be *if* the checkbox was checked. To actually *set* the checkbox you need: <input type=checkbox name=firstvalue value='$result[32]' checked> hth -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk /* Always there remain portions of our heart into which no one is able to enter, invite them as we may. */ -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
