PHP handling combined checkboxes and select boxes - php

Question

I'm working on a form that uploads an image to a server. The form contains checkboxes and select boxes formatted to a <table>. Each table row contains two columns. The First column iterates through a mysql query that displays a list of items (24 items to be exact) that is paired to a checkbox. The 2nd column iterates through a mysql query that displays list of clients.
What needs to be done are as follows:
When the form gets uploaded (via POST or GET) the checkboxes which only have check gets passed.
convert the subs_id (name parameter for the select box) to an array for easy processing for mysql insert.
Code Below. Thanks in advanced!
<form method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="upload2.php">
Name: <input type="text" name="item_desc" value="">
Show Date: <input type="text" name="upload_date" class="date" size="10"> to <input type="text" name="expiry_date" class="date" size="10">
Item: <input type="file" name="item"> Display Length: <input type="number" value="8" name="show_time" size="3" style="width:50px"> secs
<table class="data-list" width="100%">
<tr>
<td>Widget</td>
<td>Client</td>
</tr>
<?php foreach($instance as $item):?>
<tr>
<td><input type="checkbox" id="checkAll"/> <?php echo $item['name']; ?></td>
<td><select id="selectBox" name="subs_id[]">
<option selected="selected" value="none">Select Client</option>
<?php foreach($subs as $client): ?>
<option value="<?php echo $item['id'] . '-' . $client['id']; ?>" client="<?php echo $client['client_name']; ?>" ><?php echo $client['client_name']; ?></option>
<?php endforeach ?>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</table>
<br>
<input type="submit" value="upload">
</form>

Answer 1

<input type="checkbox" id="checkAll" name='client[]' value ="1" /> <?php echo $item['name']; ?>
name and value is missing

Answer 2

1 .Change your checkbox code to
<input type="checkbox" id="checkAll" name="checkId[]" value="<?php echo $item['name']; ?>"/> <?php echo $item['name']; ?>
Here, I am taking name as array checkId[] and value of checkbox value="<?php echo $item['name']; ?>"
This should work for you.
Your select box is fine. There is no need to change it. you can find value of select box by checking index.

Answer 3

I figured it out. What I did was detect when there was a change on the select box and assign the value of the select box to the check box's value.
$(".selectBox").change(function() {
$(this).parent().siblings().children('input').attr('value',$(this).val());
});
then, on the upload2.php, I used the code below to get the value of only the boxes with check
if(!empty($_POST['checkId'])) {
$filename = $this->unique_filename($this->extract_ext( $_FILES["item"]["name"]));
$folder = dirname(__FILE__) . '/items';
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['item']['tmp_name'],"{$folder}/{$filename}");
foreach($_POST['checkId'] as $check) {
//save to db
$split = explode("-",$check);
$subs_id = $this->use_table('clients')->where('client_name like "' . $split[2] . '%"')->where('site_id=' . $split[1])->fetch();
//$subs_id = $this->query('select * from clients where client_name like "Trinoma%" and site_id=1');
//print_r($subs_id[0][id]);
$data = array(
'item_name'=> 'widgets/' . strtolower(get_class($this)) . '/items/' . $filename,
'show_time'=> $_POST['show_time'],
'instance_id'=> $split[0],
'item_desc'=>$_POST['item_desc'],
'subs_id'=> $subs_id[0][id]
);
$this->use_table(TBL_NAME)->insert($data)->execute();
$mid = $this->last_insert_id();
$this->use_table(TBL_SCHED)->insert(array(
'multirotator_id'=>$mid,
'show_from'=>'00:00',
'show_to'=>'23:59',
'upload_date'=>$_POST['upload_date'],
'expiry_date'=>$_POST['expiry_date']
))->execute();
} //end of foreach
} //end of if(!empty($_POST['checkId']))
and voila! working code for me.