Trouble with arrays

spoco · October 25, 2010

I have a form that I want the data to e-mail in a message. Everything works except for the checkbox arrays. "Array" displays when I want all values of checked boxes to display.

Here is the code, I have bolded where checkbox data should be coming over. I'm not a pro so any help is greatly appreciated.


$message = "<html><body>\r\n";
$message .= "<table width='500' border='0' cellpadding='2'>\r\n";
$message .= "  <tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>School</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['school'] . " </td>\r\n";
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "  <tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Teacher</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['teacher'] . "</td>\r\n";
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "  <tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Subject</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>" . $_POST['subject'] . "</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Period</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <<td width='50'>" . $_POST['period'] . "</td>\r\n";
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Date</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='50'>" . $_POST['month'] .  "</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='15'>" . $_POST['day'] .  "</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='15'>" . $_POST['year'] .  "</td>\r\n";
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Time In:</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='100'>" . $_POST['timeIn'] . "</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Time Out:</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='100'>" . $_POST['timeOut'] . "</td>\r\n";
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Teacher Location Upon Entrance</td>\r\n";
[b]$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['q6_1Teacher6'] . "</td>\r\n";[/b]
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Comments</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['q7_comments7'] . "</td>\r\n";
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Student Engagement</td>\r\n";
[b]$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['q11_2Student'] . "</td>\r\n";[/b]
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Students Engaged/Total Students</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['q12_studentsEngagedtotal'] . "</td>\r\n";
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Comments</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['q15_comments15'] . "</td>\r\n";
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Teaching Alignment</td>\r\n";
[b]$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['q17_3Teaching17'] . "</td>\r\n";[/b]
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Comments</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['q18_comments18'] . "</td>\r\n";
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Identified Learning</td>\r\n";
[b]$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['q13_4Identified'] . "</td>\r\n";[/b]
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Comments</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['q16_comments16'] . "</td>\r\n";
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Rigor Rate</td>\r\n";
[b]$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['q20_5Rigor'] . "</td>\r\n";[/b]
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Comments</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['q21_comments21'] . "</td>\r\n";
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Assessment Practice</td>\r\n";
[b]$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['q22_6Assessment'] . "</td>\r\n";[/b]
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Comments</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['q27_comments27'] . "</td>\r\n";
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Instructional Practice</td>\r\n";
[b]$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['q24_studentDirected'] . "</td>\r\n";[/b]
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Comments</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['q23_comments23'] . "</td>\r\n";
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Learning Environment</td>\r\n";
[b]$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['q28_8Learning'] . "</td>\r\n";[/b]
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='150'>Comments</td>\r\n";
$message .= "    <td width='350'>" . $_POST['q29_comments29'] . "</td>\r\n";
$message .= "  </tr>\r\n";
$message .= "</table>\r\n";
$message .= "</body></html>";

tastro · October 25, 2010

you need to make a loop for the checkbox data. or just use something like implode() to get the array to a string.

OldWest · October 26, 2010

php handles checkboxes differently that your type="text".

This is how I address the problem you are facing. For each checkbox option I create an

if

block like so:

if(isset($_POST["checkBoxName"]["checkBoxalue"])) { 
  echo $_POST['checkBoxName'];
} else {
exit();
};

The above code might not work right, but it should give you the right direction! You basically want to store each checkbox Name and Value and then once it's stored you can insert it into MySQL or a variable for email, posting to a page, etc..

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