Question

i am populating a form from mysql. code is. .

task.php

<div data-role="content">
               <h2> Please select cars </h2>
<form method="post" action="cars.php">
            <?php 
            $carq = "select * from cars";
            $executecars = mysql_query($carq);
            while($row=mysql_fetch_assoc($executecars)){
                $cname = $row['name'];  
                ?>

               <label for="<?php echo $cname; ?>"><?php echo $cname; ?></label>
               <input type="checkbox" name="car" id="<?php echo $cname; ?>" value="<?php echo $cname; ?>"/>

            <?php }     

            ?>
           <input type="submit" name="submitcars" id="submitcars" value="View Details"/>
           </form>
         </div>

now in cars.php i want to make a query to display the details of car selected,

<div data-role="content">
        <?php 
            if(isset($_POST['submitcars'])){

                echo $_POST[$cname];?????????????


                }
        ?>

        </div>

now how to process the form here in cars.php ?

thanks

Answer 1

Make car attribute array::

<input type="checkbox" name="car[]" id="<?php echo $cname; ?>" value="<?php echo $cname; ?>"/>

and get them on next page with

if(isset($_POST['submitcars'])){
   foreach($_POST['car'] as $car){
       // do something with $car
   }
}