How to save input fields of accompanying checkboxes? - php

Question

I have a list a checkboxes with accompanying input text fields. If the user checks a box, the accompanying text field will be add to an array.
I am new to PHP and was wondering if anyone can help me in the right direction.
Should I use a for loop, foreach, while, unique "name" for each input, or something else?
Below is what I have so far.
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
$array = array();
while(isset($_POST['check'])){
if(!isset($_POST[$some_text]) || empty($_POST[$some_text])){
echo "Please include your text for each checkbox you selected.";
exit();
}
$array[] = $_POST['some_text];
}
}
?>
<form>
<input type="checkbox" name="check"><input type="text name="some_text">
<input type="checkbox" name="check"><input type="text name="some_text">
<input type="checkbox" name="check"><input type="text name="some_text">
<!-- I might have around 100 of these -->
<!-- submit button here -->
</form>

Answer 1

You first need a way to associate your checkboxes with their corresponding text fields, and a way to tell them apart. For example:
<form>
<input type="checkbox" name="check[]" value="1"><input type="text name="text1">
<input type="checkbox" name="check[]" value="2"><input type="text name="text2">
<input type="checkbox" name="check[]" value="3"><input type="text name="text3">
</form>
Now you can loop through it as follows:
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') {
if (isset($_POST['check']) && is_array($_POST['check']) && !empty($_POST['check'])) {
$array = array();
foreach ($_POST['check'] as $value) {
$text_field = 'text' . $value;
if (!isset($_POST[$text_field]) || trim($_POST[$text_field]) == '') {
echo "Please include your text for each checkbox you selected.";
exit;
}
$array[] = $_POST[$text_field];
}
}
}

Answer 2

Try this:
$select = array();
foreach($_POST['check'] as $key => $selected){
$select[$key] = $selected;
}

Answer 3

Please try this:
<?php
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
for($i=0; $i<100; $i++)
{
if($_POST['check_'.$i])
{
$array[] = $_POST['input_'.$i];
}
}
}
?>
#################### HTML
<form method="post" action="">
<?php for($i=0; $i<100; $i++) { ?>
<input type="checkbox" name="check_<?php echo $i ?>"><input type="text" name="input_<?php echo $i ?>">
<?php } ?>
<input type="submit" name="submit">
</form>