Question

I am trying to insert some values into a database from a form submitted by the user.

$id = mysql_insert_id();//Gets ID of last value inserted into related table
foreach( $_POST[ 'equipment' ] as $checkBoxIndex => $checkBoxValue ) {

mysql_query("INSERT INTO recipeequipment (recipeid, equipmentid, datetimeentered) VALUES('".$id."', '".$checkBoxValue."', '".$datetime."')");

}

The only thing that needs adding to this insert statement is the quantity, which is held in a similar fashion to the checkboxes, but in textboxes. like this:

<?php while($rowequipment = mysql_fetch_assoc($sqlequipment)) {
echo '<input type="checkbox" name="equipment[]" value="'.$rowequipment['equipmentid'].'"/>
      <input type="text" name="count[]" id="count[]" size="3" value="" />'
     .$rowequipment['description']."<br />";
      }?>

The piece i need help with is the second input column. I need to put the values that correspond with the check boxes into the insert statement, but am unsure of how to do this.

Answer 1

Ignoring all the vunrabilities in your code for now, doing something like this should allow you to get a unique id and match the checkbox up to the input:

<?php while($rowequipment = mysql_fetch_assoc($sqlequipment)) {
echo '<input type="checkbox" name="equipment['.$rowequipment['equipmentid'].']" value="'.$rowequipment['equipmentid'].'"/>
      <input type="text" name="count['.$rowequipment['equipmentid'].']" id="count-'.$rowequipment['equipmentid'].'" size="3" value="" />'
     .$rowequipment['description']."<br />";
      }?>

Then once that form is submitted you would simply loop through each checkbox by doing something like:

foreach ($_POST['equipment'] as $id => $checkboxValue) {
  $textInputValue = $_POST['count'][$id];
  // do something with the above value here
}

Although, I’m not quite sure why you’re using checkboxes like this – is it so you ignore updating the rows that they don’t check off or something?