so basically lets say I have a page called page-with-links.php:
<ul>
<li><a href="page-with-checkboxes.php" name="blue">Blue</a></li>
<li><a href="page-with-checkboxes.php" name="red">Red</a></li>
<li><a href="page-with-checkboxes.php" name="green">Green</a></li>
<li><a href="page-with-checkboxes.php" name="yellow">Yellow</a></li>
<li><a href="page-with-checkboxes.php" name="orange">Orange</a></li>
</ul>
and a page called page-with-checkboxes.php:
<h3>You selected:</h3>
<form>
<input type="checkbox" name="blue" />
<label for="blue"> Blue</label><br>
input type="checkbox" name="red" />
<label for="red"> Red</label><br>
input type="checkbox" name="green" />
<label for="green"> Green</label><br>
<input type="checkbox" name="yellow" />
<label for="yellow"> Yellow</label><br>
<input type="checkbox" name="orange" />
<label for="orange"> Orange</label><br>
</form>
I would like to be able to use the name value of the <a> tag to check the related box on the next page.
For example, if the user clicks 'green' on page-with-links.php, I would like the checkbox with name="green" to be checked when page-with-checkboxes.php loads.
I hope I've been clear enough. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!
write line of code on your page page-with-links.php
<ul>
<li> <a href="page-with-checkboxes.php?value=blue" name="blue">Blue</a> </li>
<li> <a href="page-with-checkboxes.php?value=red" name="red">Red</a></li>
<li> <a href="page-with-checkboxes.php?value=green" name="green">Green</a></li>
<li> <a href="page-with-checkboxes.php?value=yellow" name="yellow">Yellow</a></li>
<li> <a href="page-with-checkboxes.php?value=orange" name="orange">Orange</a></li>
</ul>
and write follow line of code on page called page-with-checkboxes.php:
<input type="checkbox" name="blue" <?php echo $_GET['value']=='blue'?'checked':''; />
<label for="blue"> Blue</label><br>
<input type="checkbox" name="red" <?php echo $_GET['value']=='red'?'checked':''; />
<label for="red"> Red</label><br>
<input type="checkbox" name="green" <?php echo $_GET['value']=='green'?'checked':''; />
<label for="green"> Green</label><br>
<input type="checkbox" name="yellow" <?php echo $_GET['value']=='yellow'?'checked':''; />
<label for="yellow"> Yellow</label><br>
<input type="checkbox" name="orange" <?php echo $_GET['value']=='orange'?'checked':''; />
<label for="orange"> Orange</label>
Can you try this,
In page-with-links.php:
<li><a href="page-with-checkboxes.php?type=blue" name="blue">Blue</a></li>
In page-with-checkboxes.php:
<input type="checkbox" name="blue" <?php echo $_GET['type']=='blue'?'checked':''; />
<label for="blue"> Blue</label><br>
The a tag attributes does not affect on the request.
You must follow this :
<ul>
<li><a href="page-with-checkboxes.php?name=blue" name="blue">Blue</a></li>
<li><a href="page-with-checkboxes.php?name=red" name="red">Red</a></li>
<li><a href="page-with-checkboxes.php?name=green" name="green">Green</a></li>
<li><a href="page-with-checkboxes.php?name=yellow" name="yellow">Yellow</a></li>
<li><a href="page-with-checkboxes.php?name=orange" name="orange">Orange</a></li>
</ul>
And in your page-with-checkboxes.php get this values :
<?php
if(isset($_GET['name']) {
$color = $_GET['name'];
} else {
$color = null;
}
?>
<form>
<input type="checkbox" name="blue" <?php print $color=="blue" ? "checked" : "" ?> />
<label for="blue"> Blue</label><br>
input type="checkbox" name="red" <?php print $color=="red" ? "checked" : "" ?> />
<label for="red"> Red</label><br>
input type="checkbox" name="green" <?php print $color=="green" ? "checked" : "" ?> />
<label for="green"> Green</label><br>
<input type="checkbox" name="yellow" <?php print $color=="yellow" ? "checked" : "" ?> />
<label for="yellow"> Yellow</label><br>
<input type="checkbox" name="orange" <?php print $color=="orange" ? "checked" : "" ?> />
<label for="orange"> Orange</label><br>
</form>