Multiple records from one form

Question

Hi everyone,
I am creating a sign-up form for users of a website - i need
them to select from a number of categories that they want to be
listed in. i am using a series of check boxes for them to select
the categories. What i want to do is create a separate record in my
MySQL DB for each check box that is ticked that contains the user
ID and the category ID. is there a way to do this from just one
form?

Answer 1

dhewuidhjklhdwidh wrote:
> I am creating a sign-up form for users of a website - i
need them to select
> from a number of categories that they want to be listed
in. i am using a series
> of check boxes for them to select the categories. What i
want to do is create a
> separate record in my MySQL DB for each check box that
is ticked that contains
> the user ID and the category ID. is there a way to do
this from just one form?
You can save them in a SET column. A SET column type allows
you to store
up to 64 predefined values in a single column.
Create the checkbox group as an array by adding square
brackets to the
end of the name value like this:
<input type="checkbox" name="category[]" value="catA"
/>
<input type="checkbox" name="category[]" value="catB"
/>
<input type="checkbox" name="category[]" value="catC"
/>
To insert the values in a SET column, use implode() to create
a
comma-separated string:
if (isset($_POST['category'])) {
$_POST['category'] = implode(',', $_POST['category']);
else {
$_POST['category'] = '';
More about the SET column type here:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/set.html
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