Question

I have built a form that has a checkbox input array (saving to an array). However, when I POST it and retrieve the results, it only offers the last selection.

<input type="checkbox" value="Friendly" name="quest[9]"> Friendly<br>
<input type="checkbox" value="Attentive" name="quest[9]"> Attentive<br>
<input type="checkbox" value="Enthusiastic" name="quest[9]"> Enthusiastic<br>
<input type="checkbox" value="Understanding" name="quest[9]"> Understanding<br>
<input type="checkbox" value="Well Mannered" name="quest[9]"> Well Mannered<br>
<input type="checkbox" value="Efficient" name="quest[9]"> Efficient<br>
<input type="checkbox" value="Genuine" name="quest[9]"> Genuine<br>

For example, say I chose “Friendly”, “Efficient”, and “Genuine”.

When I POST it over to a PHP document and run

print_r($_POST['quest']);

I only receive

Array ( [9] => Genuine )

back so “Genuine” is the only item I get back. Is there a way to fix this? What have I done wrong?

This is the 9th question on the survey, so changing the name unfortunately is not an option. Is there any way to combine the results to that single array separated by commas? I could always explode on the php side.

Answer 1

I’m posting a new answer about your comments on the previous one:

Since you must keep quest[9] as the organization for the checkbox array..

You may want to try and make it a more complex array, where each <input> has name="quest[9][1]", name="quest[9][2]" and so on.

And find the contents by

print_r($_POST['quest']);

again