Question

I am trying to build a query that uses checkboxes from an html form. I’m not sure if i should create an array but at the current time I am only getting results from one of the checkboxes.

Here is my checkbox setup.

<input type="checkbox" name="color[]" value="Black">Black
<input type="checkbox" name="color[]" value="Blue">Blue
<input type="checkbox" name="color[]" value="Brown">Brown
<input type="checkbox" name="color[]" value="Green">Green
<input type="checkbox" name="color[]" value="Grey">Grey
<input type="checkbox" name="color[]" value="Orange">Orange
<input type="checkbox" name="color[]" value="Pink">Pink
<input type="checkbox" name="color[]" value="Purple">Purple
<input type="checkbox" name="color[]" value="Red">Red
<input type="checkbox" name="color[]" value="Teal">Teal
<input type="checkbox" name="color[]" value="White">White
<input type="checkbox" name="color[]" value="Yellow">Yellow

here is my php and mysql query

extract($_GET);

$Color =  $color[];

$query = "SELECT * FROM tblYarn WHERE Color ='".$Color."'";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die('Query failed: ' . mysql_error());

I’m trying to select yarn by color and only getting one color at a time.

Here is my display table code

echo "<table>\n";
while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
echo "\t<tr>\n";
foreach ($line as $col_value) {
echo "\t\t<td>$col_value</td>\n";
}
echo "<td><img src=./images/$col_value border='3' ></td>";


echo "\t</tr>\n";
}
echo "</table>\n";

Answer 1

This should work:

extract($_GET);

$query = "SELECT * FROM tblYarn WHERE Color IN ('" . implode("','",$color) . "')";
$result = mysql_query($query) or die('Query failed: ' . mysql_error());