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    <p>Your problem is most likely related to the way html returns values of checkboxes. </p> <p>if a checkbox is checked-in it's value is returned, if it isn't checked-in no value whatsoever is returned.</p> <p>In a case you would be picking colours from checkboxes called <code>name='colours[]'</code> your values will be like this: (fist line is choices, second the returned array in php)</p> <pre><code>[x] red [ ] green [ ] blue [x] yellow [ ] black [ ] white array('red','yellow') [ ] red [ ] green [ ] blue [x] yellow [ ] black [x] white array('yellow','white') [ ] red [ ] green [ ] blue [ ] yellow [ ] black [ ] white null (no array returned) </code></pre> <p>one way of doing it is using different name for each option and check for your values in this style:</p> <pre><code>$red = isset($_POST['ck_red']); $green = isset($_POST['ck_green']); ... </code></pre> <p>That of course in case you defined your red check box as <code>name='ck_red'</code> etc.</p> <p><strong>EDIT</strong><br/>(Your code follows)</p> <p>html:</p> <pre><code>&lt;INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="areas[]" VALUE="1"&gt;The Homeless&lt;/INPUT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="areas[]" VALUE="2"&gt;The Elderly&lt;/INPUT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="areas[]" VALUE="3"&gt;Refugees&lt;/INPUT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt; &lt;INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="areas[]" VALUE="4"&gt;The handicapped&lt;/INPUT&gt;&lt;BR /&gt; </code></pre> <p>php:</p> <pre><code>$areas[] = "$_POST[areas]"; foreach ($areas as $value) { echo $value . " "; } </code></pre> <p><strong>Answer</strong>: You have an error is in the assignment <code>$areas[] = "$_POST[areas]";</code> and namely in using the <code>"</code> around the <code>$_POST[areas]</code> - by doing so you are telling the parser, that you want to know the textual value of variable $_POST[areas] which is an array and php's way of dealing with it is to return TEXT <strong>'array'</strong> instead of (as for example in javascript) the list of elements delimited by coma. The other error is, eventhough it would work as you have it, that you are reffering to undefined constant <code>areas</code> instead of to string literal <code>'areas'</code> as in <code>$_POST['areas']</code> (notice the single quotes <code>'</code> around the key name. The last mistake is assigning the <code>$_POST['areas']</code> to <code>$areas[]</code> instead of <code>$areas</code> (without the <code>[]</code>). What you are doing there is you are adding a new element of array to array (areas) to which you are assigning the value of <code>$_POST['areas']</code> so in case it was without the first error (the <code>"</code>) it would create two dimensional array <code>areas =&gt; array(array('a','b','c'))</code></p> <p>Fix (php):</p> <pre><code>$areas = $_POST['areas']; foreach ($areas as $value) { echo $value . " "; } </code></pre>
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    1. COMy form code is: <INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="areas[]" VALUE="1">The Homeless</INPUT><BR /> <INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="areas[]" VALUE="2">The Elderly</INPUT><BR /> <INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="areas[]" VALUE="3">Refugees</INPUT><BR /> <INPUT TYPE="CHECKBOX" NAME="areas[]" VALUE="4">The handicapped</INPUT><BR /> ETC. and my code is: $areas[] = "$_POST[areas]"; foreach ($areas as $value) { echo $value . " "; } Result: Array. Sorry, haven't got the hang of formatting yet.
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    2. CO@user2190704 it's not possible to format in comments. however, depending on what are you doing with it in php chose Marshall's or my answer. What i tried to tell you with my answer, is that using array for group of checkboxes may not be best option, but it depends on how you process the input (in php) afterwards. Now i noticed an error in what you posted, so i'm going to update my answer and include that in there.
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    3. COoh boy (hits forehead with palm) - thanks so much. this is a classic case of copying the syntax of all the other variable assignments, without thinking how it works. thanks a million to all who answered.
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