Question

I have checkboxes with name statuses. This is how i am doing it:

   $_SESSION['statuses'] = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['statuses']);

When i insert it that is how i am doing it:

   $insert = "INSERT INTO submitted (statuses) 
   VALUES ('".$_SESSION['statuses']."')";

   $query = mysql_query($insert) or die ("Error: ".mysql_error());

Problem is nothing that is checked gets inserted into the database, so how do i insert checked entries?

NEW/UPDATE:

This is how the checkbox form looks like:

                    <input type="checkbox" name="statuses" value="something">
        <input type="checkbox" name="statuses" value="something">
        <input type="checkbox" name="statuses" value="something">
        <input type="checkbox" name="statuses" value="something">
        <input type="checkbox" name="statuses" value="something">
        <input type="checkbox" name="statuses" value="something">

Answer 1

Perhaps the issue might lie in the mark up you have written for the form. Here’s and example:

<form action="checkbox-form.php" method="post">
Select your options<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="options[]" value="A" />A<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="options[]" value="B" />B<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="options[]" value="C" />C<br />
<input type="submit" name="formSubmit" value="Submit" />
</form>

Notice that options is set as options[]. This allows an array of all checked options to appear in your POST super variable.

If you do:

var_dump($_POST['options']);

You should then get an array containing all the checked values.

Then you can do something like:

foreach($_POST['options'] as &$option){
   mysql_real_escape_string($option);
}

Then insert into the database:

   $insert = "INSERT INTO submitted (statuses)       
   VALUES ('". implode(",", $_POST['options']) ."')";      

   $query = mysql_query($insert) or die ("Error: ".mysql_error());

Update:
On each page of the form you should have something like escape the values and save it to the session. This then saves the values from each page to the user’s session:

//Page 1
foreach($_POST['options'] as $option){
     $_SESSION['options'][] = mysql_real_escape_string($option);
}

//page 2
$_SESSION['SOME_OTHER_VALUE_FROM_TEXT_BOX'] = mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['SOME_OTHER_VALUE_FROM_TEXT_BOX');

//Final page:
//Everything is now stored in SESSION, so you can use them there:
//For example, display the value of options:
var_dump($_SESSION['options']); //etc

//So here, you would just run your sql queries to insert the appropriate data into your databse.