Question

sorry my code is a bit long, please bear with me. i am trying to load the link stored inside a cell from my sql table via php. The user is able to click a checkbox and choose which link to load. however, what i have is a bit off. it loads all the links present in the sql table instead of the one the user chooses. what did i do wrong? please guide. Thank you!

$sql = "SELECT * FROM previousbroadcast ORDER BY id DESC";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
$count = mysql_num_rows($result);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
      if (isset($_POST['re_b'])){
      $xml = simplexml_load_file($row['bclink']);   
   }
}

and the HTML is like

<input name="checkbox[]" type="checkbox" id="checkbox[]" value="<? echo $row['id']; ?>">

Answer 1

OK, a new try with the additional information you gave:

This solution is based on the following assumptions:

1. The value of the checkboxes you get is in some way related to a field in the database
2. For the sake of simplicity, I have named that field id – it can be named differently in the database, but only you would know that…

That being said:

$sql = "SELECT * FROM previousbroadcast ORDER BY id DESC";
$result=mysql_query($sql);
$count = mysql_num_rows($result);

// in this array, we now have all the values of the checkboxes the user selected
$checkboxvalues = $_REQUEST['checkbox'];

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
   if (isset($_POST['re_b'])){

      // if the ID of this row is mentioned in the checkboxes the user clicked
      // then - and only then - load the file
      if (in_array($row[id], $checkboxvalues)) {

          $xml = simplexml_load_file($row['bclink']);   
      }
   }
}