what does the checkbox checked look like in a form post url?

guest · 03-09-2009, 08:49 PM

i know strange question..

so i'm doing some cURL and have a checkbox name 'accept' i want to send as checked..

how does the 'accept' checkbox look like in the form post? is it accept=checked or accept=1?

the form:

Code:

 <form method="GET" action="post.php"> 
          <input type=text name="first_name"> 
          <input type=checkbox name="accept">
          <input type=submit name=press value="OK"> 
        </form>

the curl:

PHP Code:



<?
$url='http://www.mysite.com/post.php';
$first_name='Jerry';
$postfields='first_name='.$first_name.'accept=1';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); // 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields); 
$data=curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch); 
echo $data; 
?>

is the 'accept' supposed to =1 or =checked?

guest · 03-10-2009, 12:45 PM

or maybe it's =on?

i tried all 3 and they all don't seem to work

graemef · 03-10-2009, 10:43 PM

just:

Code:

<input type=checkbox name="accept" checked>

trevelluk · 04-20-2009, 05:18 PM

Is the HTML page something you've written yourself? The checkbox should have a value attribute, e.g. something like:

Code:

<input type=checkbox name="accept" value="something">

In this case then you should sent accept=something

If you didn't write the HTML yourself then it will probably be enough to send the variable without a value, i.e.

PHP Code:



$postfields='first_name='.$first_name.'accept=';

which may look odd, but the chances are in this case the server will simply check for the presence of the variable, and ignore its value.