Now, create a new page, this can be called anything. Put the following html code in the page to display the form.
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<form action="parse.php" method="post">
<input type="checkbox" name="person[]" value="Tom" /> Tom<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="person[]" value="James" /> James<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="person[]" value="Robert" /> Robert<br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
The name is set to person[] so all these checkboxes values can be parsed in the same variable as an array. The action of the form is set to parse.php so now we will create that file.
parse.php
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if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
// the form has been submitted
$person = $_POST['person'];
print_r($person);
}
else
{
// the form hasn't been submitted
echo "Please go back and fill in the form!";
}
Ok, this is very simple. Firstly, we check if the form has been submitted by seeing if the $_POST['submit'] has been set. Then to make it more easy to use, we assign the submitted array of selected checkboxes to a variable, $person. Then purely for debugging reasons, we do a print_r of the array to see what values are in the form.
Just for another example, I will show you how you can echo all submitted values in the array. All you need is a very simple foreach
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foreach($person as $p){
echo $p;
}
Thank you for reading.
