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TotalNewbie
TotalNewbie

Reputation: 1024

Checkbox with the same name POST

apologies if this is simple, I am trying to grab the selections from multiple checkboxes. I have created multiple checkboxes which look as follows:

<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox" value="a" id="selection">
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox" value="b" id="selection">
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox" value="c" id="selection">

I then can have a button and retrieve the form data using codeigniters built in form helper:

$temp = $this->input->post('checkbox');

if I select more than one checkbox however, and try to echo $temp, I only see one selection that a person has made. any ideas - ideally I don't want to use JS. Many thanks in advance

Upvotes: 1

Views: 699

Answers (1)

Zulu
Zulu

Reputation: 66

You just need to add square brackets after checkbox name, like this:

<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox[]" value="a" class="selection">
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox[]" value="b" class="selection">
<input type="checkbox" name="checkbox[]" value="c" class="selection">

This will pass checkboxes as array. Now you will get $this->input->post('checkbox') as something like this:

Array ( [0] => b [1] => c )

Upvotes: 2

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