I am trying to build a system to compare two records in the database. Where the records will be displayed in Ascending order of the name column and then i can choose 2 records by marking checkbox along the side of these records and then click compare. When i click compare i want to send the id of these two records to the next page.
When i use Get method i get {id}=on${id}=on. what i want to do is $id1 ={id}&$id2={id}
not sure how to do this ? do u i need to use javascript ?
Give the checkbox the value you want - i.e. the id instead of "on".
<input type="checkbox" name="id" value="on" /> submits as id=on if checked.
<input type="checkbox" name="id" value="1337" /> submits as id=1337 if checked.
Unchecked checkbox are not submitted at all, so you have to check if(isset($_GET['id']))
And, as you seem to be using multiple ids:
<input type="checkbox" name="id[]" value="1337" />
<input type="checkbox" name="id[]" value="42" />
This will create an array $_GET['id'] containing the values of the checked ids, e.g. array(1337, 42) if both checkboxes were checked.
very very confused by your question, please clear it up.
For what i can make out are you not wanting to do:
$ids = isset($_GET['ids']) && is_array($_GET['ids']) ? $_GET['ids'] : false;
if($ids)
{
//Check the database
}
and then HTML Wise
<form method="get" action="index.php">
<input type="checkbox" name="ids[]" value="1" />
<input type="checkbox" name="ids[]" value="12" />
<input type="checkbox" name="ids[]" value="123" />
<input type="checkbox" name="ids[]" value="1234"/>
<input type="checkbox" name="ids[]" value="2" />
<input type="checkbox" name="ids[]" value="23" />
<input type="checkbox" name="ids[]" value="234"/>
</form>
this will produce checkboxes and on server side you can use $ids
I think should be this instead:
<input type="checkbox" name="id1" value="<?=$ID1?>" />
<input type="checkbox" name="id2" value="<?=$ID2?>" />
You need to give unique ID for two different checkbox
if you want to do comparison in subsequent page
