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    copied!<p>I have checkboxes in my form, which returns me string instead of array, as it should. Can anyone tell me what is wrong with my code?</p> <p>Here is the code from the view:</p> <pre><code> &lt;?php echo form_open('backOfficeUsers/deleteMoreUsers');?&gt; &lt;table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#02659E" width="500"&gt; &lt;tr bgcolor="#E9E8ED"&gt; &lt;td align="center"&gt; &lt;b&gt;User ID&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="center"&gt; &lt;b&gt;User Name&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="center"&gt; &lt;b&gt;Password&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="center"&gt; &lt;b&gt;Select for delete&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;td align="center"&gt; &lt;b&gt;Delete&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;?php foreach ($users as $key =&gt; $user) { echo form_open('backOfficeUsers/deleteUser'); echo form_hidden('dpage', 'backOfficeUsers/displayAllUsers'); echo form_hidden('rid', $user['id']); echo"&lt;tr bgcolor='#E9E8ED'&gt;"; echo "&lt;td&gt;" . anchor("backOfficeUsers/displayEditUserForm/$user[id]/", $user['id']) . "&lt;/td&gt;"; echo "&lt;td&gt;" . $user['username'] . "&lt;/td&gt; "; echo "&lt;td&gt;" . $user['password'] . "&lt;/td&gt; "; echo "&lt;td&gt;" . form_checkbox('userdelete[]', $user['id']) . "&lt;/td&gt; "; $confirm = "onclick='return confirmSubmit();'"; echo"&lt;td&gt;"; echo form_submit('submit', 'Delete', $confirm); echo"&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;"; echo form_close(); } ?&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;?php echo form_submit('submit', 'Delete All Selected Users');?&gt; &lt;?php echo form_close();?&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>And when I make var dump from my controller, I am getting string string(3) “200” (while 200 is the row id.</p> <p>Here is the code of the controller:</p> <pre><code>foreach ($this-&gt;input-&gt;post('userdelete') as $row){ $deleteWhat = $row; var_dump($deleteWhat); die(); } </code></pre> <p>This print string(3) and the id of the first row.</p>
 

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