I have a list of songs. I'm trying to determine whether or not a song on the list has been checked or not. If so I need to know the value of the checkbox.
my html looks like this... the value $song_id is pulled from the list in the database.
<input type='checkbox' name='song[]' value='$song_id' />
There could be 10 songs... there could 100. I need to know which ones have been checked and how to get the value.
foreach ( $_POST['song'] AS $song_id ) {
// do smth with $song_id ...
}
ADDED
You should use jQuery (or raw javascript) to do logic you want. jQuery is http://jquery.com/ using it you can do you want on front-end. Do this on back-end is bad idea.
Once you submit the form the $_POST['song']
variable will contain an array of all the $song_id
's that were selected.
You can do something like this:
<input type='checkbox' name='song[]' class='songItem' value='$song_id' />
<input type='hidden' id='selectSongsHidden' />
In JavaScript,
var selectedSongValues = [];
var selectedSongsString = ""; // for comma-separated values
function GetSelectedSongs()
{
var songs = $('.songItem');
var selectedSongs = [];
for(var i=0; i<songs.length; i++)
{
var checked = $(songs[i]).is(':checked');
if(checked)
{
selectedSongs.push(songs[i]);
}
}
for(var j=0; j<selectedSongs.length; j++)
{
selectedSongValues.push($(selectedSongs[j]).val());
selectedSongsString += $(selectedSongs[j]).val() + ",";
}
$('#selectSongsHidden').val(selectedSongsString);
}
When you press submit, in the onclick event you can call this function and set the value to a hidden field.
You can see this in a working http://jsfiddle.net/A3e3y