Collecting choices from several selection boxes and storing them

**Alvaro G. Vicario** · Jul 17 '05, 08:24 AM

Re: Collecting choices from several selection boxes and storing them

*** nt9 escribió/wrote (Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:59:40 +0100):[color=blue]
> I am very new with php so excuse me please if the question seems really
> easy.I have a page(form) which displays a list of the titles of some
> books(retreived from a database) and each title has a selection box with
> option values 1 to 7 each.The user should be able to enter 7 choices of his
> favourite books and store them in the database at a table called preferences
> with fields: customer_id ,first_choice, sec_choice,thir d_choice etc.I am
> really stuck in implementing how I can collect the choices and link them
> with each book's code so that i can store them in the table.[/color]

PHP allows you to treat form fields as arrays if you give them the
appropiate name. I particularly love arrays. In your case it could be
something like:

<select name="book[1244][]" multiple>
<option value="foo">Foo blah blah</option>
<option value="bar">Bar bleh bleh</option>
....
</select>

where 1245 is the book ID in database. Then in your script you'll have as
may arrays as books, each one containing as many elements (arrays) as
selected options:

$_POST['1245'][0] --> 'foo'
$_POST['1245'][1] --> 'bar'
....

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Collecting choices from several selection boxes and storing them

Collecting choices from several selection boxes and storing them

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