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"Select All" JavaScript for Forms Posting to an Array
45 commentsThis may be useful to someone - a question on the BNM list led to this small piece of JavaScript.
The original problem was that when posting to a PHP script, in order to have the result as an array (when using a set of checkboxes for example), the quickest way to do this is to add "[]" to the item name (eg 'name="area[]"). Then, PHP can access $_POST['area'] as an array in the receiving script.
Unfortunately, the addition of square brackets causes trouble with JavaScript, especially with a "Select All" function. This script works around that using regular expressions, and might prove useful to someone experiencing the same problem later.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Checkbox Fun</title>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
var formblock;
var forminputs;
function prepare() {
formblock= document.getElementById('form_id');
forminputs = formblock.getElementsByTagName('input');
}
function select_all(name, value) {
for (i = 0; i < forminputs.length; i++) {
// regex here to check name attribute
var regex = new RegExp(name, "i");
if (regex.test(forminputs[i].getAttribute('name'))) {
if (value == '1') {
forminputs[i].checked = true;
} else {
forminputs[i].checked = false;
}
}
}
}
if (window.addEventListener) {
window.addEventListener("load", prepare, false);
} else if (window.attachEvent) {
window.attachEvent("onload", prepare)
} else if (document.getElementById) {
window.onload = prepare;
}
//--></script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form_id" name="myform" method="get" action="search.php">
<a href="#" onClick="select_all('area', '1');">Check All Fruit</a> | <a href="#" onClick="select_all('area', '0');">Uncheck All
Fruit</a><br><br>
<input type="checkbox" name="area[]" value="1" />Apples<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="area[]" value="2" />Bananas<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="area[]" value="3" />Chickens<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="area[]" value="4" />Stoats
<br><br><a href="#" onClick="select_all('location', '1');">Check All Locations</a> | <a href="#" onClick="select_all('location',
'0');">Uncheck All Locations</a><br><br>
<input type="checkbox" name="location[]" value="1" />Brighton<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="location[]" value="2" />Hove<br />
</form>
</body>
</html>
