Hello,

This seems like such a stupid question but I cannot find a solution anywhere. I have a form on a page to post a thread and a check box which is used to decide whether the poster remains anonymous or not. Sounds simple enough?

All I want to do is post the form and find out if the check box was checked or unchecked. I still can't find out how to do it!?

So say I have the input as:

<input type="checkbox" name="anonymous">

I just want to get the value contained in $_POST['anonymous']

I realise a check box returns an array, but I can't seem to access a value in anonymous[0].

Can someone please help me? It seems like such a trivial problem.

Thanks

If I recall correctly the check box only returns a value if is it checked, so look to see if the value has been set
you can confirm this by printing out the value of $_POST.

[HTML]print "<pre>";
print_r ($_POST);
print "</pre>";[/HTML]

is always a good way of debugging post form output. you can use var_dump($_POST) in place of print_r($_POST), also. it gives slightly different info.

Thanks very much guys, worked a treat!

I thought it might be something simple like that in the end!

Cheers.