On Wed, May 17, 2006 1:21 pm, Rahul S. Johari wrote:
> I¹m a little confused as to what¹s the best way to handle this.
> I have a form which, apart from lots of other fields, has a set of 25
> 30
> Check Boxes, each of which asks the user for some kind of information
> which
> the user can check
I did something similar recently. Basically I have one MySQL field to
handle several dozen checkboxes, my situation though was where the
checkboxes are numerically sequential though so I am not sure if this
helps. I also had only a couple hours to do this from start to finish
so I am sure t
Martin Alterisio wrote:
2006/5/17, Rahul S. Johari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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You should consider using MySQL special column type SET:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/set.html
Or encoding each checkbox status as a binary bit in an integer
I was going to suggest this also- if n
2006/5/17, Rahul S. Johari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Ave,
I¹m a little confused as to what¹s the best way to handle this.
I have a form which, apart from lots of other fields, has a set of 25 30
Check Boxes, each of which asks the user for some kind of information
which
the user can check or leave
Well, listing all the values in a comma separated list in the DB would
be fairly simple to parse, check out:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php
As far as what is better depends on many things...
1). Maintaining the code, might be better to have each check box have
its own field,
Ave,
I¹m a little confused as to what¹s the best way to handle this.
I have a form which, apart from lots of other fields, has a set of 25 30
Check Boxes, each of which asks the user for some kind of information which
the user can check or leave unchecked.
The information each Check Box collects
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