A function giving the name of a checkbox as an array

[Bardius]

I've tried having a function whose parameter is the name of a checkbox or any other input field. However, it is with the checkbox I'm having a problem because more than 1 item can be selected simulataneously.

Is there anyway I can make the name of the checkbox an array as an argument of the function?

// what I want is to be able to define $name_of_checkbox as array[]
// and for the checkbox to actually act as an array
function ($name_of_checkbox)
{
   echo "<input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"$name_of_checkbox\" value=\"boom\">";} 

Appreciated.

[rozner]

Can you be more specific about what you're trying to do? If you pass an array to a function, it will take it as an array.

So you can do:

function something($array) {
    foreach($array as $v)
       echo '<input type="checkbox" name="' . $v . '" value ="' . $v . '">';
}
 
$test = array('test1','test2','test3');
 
something($test); // should output 3 checkboxes 

hope this helps

[Bardius]

Don't think I'll find that bit of code useful.

What I'm trying to achieve is really simple. I want to create a function where the one argument is the name of the input field. So for example if I want to create a list of checkboxes and would like the checkboxes to be named 'checkbox[]', I'd like the argument to act as such so that the checkboxes outputted would be part of the checkbox array.
Here's the heavily stripped down version of my function currently:

function While_Loop($INPUT_TYPE, $NAME, $ID_COL, $ID_NAME, $FROM, $WHERE, $DIVISIBLE_BY, $VARIABLE_EQUAL_TO)
{
    $QUERY = "SELECT $ID_COL AS id, $ID_NAME AS name FROM $FROM";
    if($WHERE)
    {
        $QUERY = $QUERY . " WHERE $WHERE";
    }
    else
    {
        $QUERY = $QUERY . " ORDER BY $ID_COL DESC";            
    }
    $RESULT = @mysql_query($QUERY);
    if(@mysql_num_rows($RESULT) == 0)
    {
        echo "<font class='body'>None found!</font><P>";
    }
    else
    {
        $i=1;
        
        if($INPUT_TYPE == "radio" OR $INPUT_TYPE == "checkbox")
        { 
            echo "<table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr>";
            $NUM = divisible_by($i,$DIVISIBLE_BY);
            while($ROW = mysql_fetch_array($RESULT))
            {
                if($INPUT_TYPE == "radio")
                {
                    echo "<td><input type=\"$INPUT_TYPE\" name=\"$NAME\" value=\"$ROW[id]\"";
                }
                else($INPUT_TYPE == "checkbox")
                {
                    // DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO HERE!!!
                    //echo "<td><input type=\"$INPUT_TYPE\" name=\"$name\" value=\"$ROW[id]\"";            
                }
    
                if($ROW[id] == $VARIABLE_EQUAL_TO)
                {
                    echo " CHECKED";
                }
                echo "><font class='body'>$ROW[name]</font></td>";
                if($NUM == 1)
                {
                    echo "</tr><tr>";
                }    
                $i++;
            }   
            echo "</tr></table>";
        }
        elseif($INPUT_TYPE == "menu")
        {
            echo "<SELECT NAME='$NAME' SIZE='1'>";
            while($ROW = mysql_fetch_array($RESULT))
            {
                echo "<OPTION VALUE=\"$ROW[id]\"";
                if($ROW[id] == $VARIABLE_EQUAL_TO)
                {
                    echo " SELECTED";
                }
            echo ">$ROW[name]</option>";
            }                           
        }
    }
} 

So if the below attained say 3 rows from the DB, then I would wish the checkboxes be named game[0], game[1] and game[2].

echo $FORM->While_Loop("checkbox", "game", "ID_Game", "Game_Name", "tbl_games", "$where_clause", "1", ""); 

Appreciated.

[headsnet]

// DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO HERE!!!
//echo "<td><input type=\"$INPUT_TYPE\" name=\"$name\" value=\"$ROW[id]\""; 

You've already got a counter variable $i that is incremented with each loop, so surely you can just use this in the name attribute. E.g. name=\"$name[$i]\" etc

// DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO HERE!!!
echo "<td><input type=\"$INPUT_TYPE\" name=\"$name[$i]\" value=\"$ROW[id]\""; 

Or to start the array keys from zero simply use name=\"$name[$i-1]\" etc

...unless I've totally got the wrong end of the stick this is the simplest way to solve your problem.