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Asked: 2026-06-05T10:43:42+00:00

Using the guidance from several Stack Overflow members I’ve gotten an PHP form to

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Using the guidance from several Stack Overflow members I’ve gotten an PHP form to communicate with my MySQL database. Now, I’m using an array for my checkboxes and the information does get to the MySQL table…sort of..

The code below will insert all of the records into the database but the column that the checkboxes correspond to have the value “Array” instead of the assigned values…:

<?php
 function renderForm($articletitle, $articleorganization, $articledate, $articleurl,     $articletags )
 {
 ?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="stylized" class="myform">
      <form id="form" name="form" action="" method="post">
. . .
          <input type="checkbox" name="articletags[]" value="checkbox" id="articletags_0" />
          <input type="checkbox" name="articletags[]" value="checkbox 2" id="articletags_1" />
. . .
        <footer><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Add this Article"></footer></form>
    </div>
  </body>
</html><?php 
 }
. . .

 if(count($articletags) > 0)
{
 $articletags_string = implode(",", $articletags);
}

 if (isset($_POST['submit']))
 { 
 $articletitle = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlspecialchars($_POST['articletitle']));
 $articleorganization = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlspecialchars($_POST['articleorganization']));
 $articledate = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlspecialchars($_POST['articledate']));
 $articleurl = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlspecialchars($_POST['articleurl']));
 $articletags = ($_POST['articletags']);

. . .
 mysql_query("INSERT articles SET articletitle='$articletitle',     articleorganization='$articleorganization', articledate='$articledate',     articleurl='$articleurl', articletags='$articletags' ")
 or die(mysql_error()); 


 header("Location:addsuccess.html"); 
 }
 }
 else

 {
 renderForm('','','','');
 }
?>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Since $_POST['articletags'] is an array, you have to convert it to string before saving to your table. Replace this line:

    $articletags = ($_POST['articletags']);

    with this:

    $articletags = implode(',', $_POST['articletags']);
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