Question

I’ve got a system where I allow a user to select multiple checkboxes from n amount of checkboxes, but also want two more inputs associated with each checkbox. This is for a message, a date and a time. When I post the data to be processed by a PHP script, I’d like to be able to access each of the sets of checkbox and two other inputs so I can see what date and time a user has filled in for each of the messages they’ve selected. I’m having trouble coming up with a method to associate the two other inputs with each checkbox.

Any ideas how to do this?

Answer 1

You can use arrays in your html inputs like so…

<input type="text" name="messages[1][message]" value="herp" />
<input type="text" name="messages[1][date]" value="24th April" />
<input type="text" name="messages[1][time]" value="13:00" />

<input type="text" name="messages[2][message]" value="derp" />
<input type="text" name="messages[2][date]" value="26th April" />
<input type="text" name="messages[2][time]" value="18:00" />


<?php

    $messages = $_REQUEST['messages'];
    foreach ($messages as $messageId => $value){
        echo $value['message'];
        echo $value['date'];
        echo $value['time'];
    }