Re: ***** <input TYPE="checkbox"> issue

[Sarah Poger Gladstone <listmember@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter- When the check box is checked, the web browser will send
"fieldname1=TRUE" to the web server. When the checkbox is not checked,
the web browser will not send anything to the web server. Its as if
the checkbox field did not exist in the HTML form.

To test out this very frustrating browser behavior, change the FORM
method to "GET" and then examine the query string part of the url when
submiting the form.




On 1/12/06, Peter Vidal <Peter_Vidal@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ***********************************
> "I use this...
> <input type="checkbox" name="poim" value ="yes"> Include PO's with
> Inventoried Materials<br>
>
> And on the back end...
>
>  POIM     = zhbGetVar('poim');
> ...
>  if poim     = 'yes';
>            sql = sql +
>            ' ';
>            else;
>            sql = sql +
>            ' and orgin_of_data in (''I'',''B'',''P'')';
> ...."
> ***********************************
>
> Thanks for responding Tim:
>
> My question however is: why I have to do that?  I thought that the
> "checkbox" logic is very straight forward: it requires to be "checked" in
> order to have a TRUE value.  My issue is that I do not know why is ALWAYS
> TRUE.
>
> I have checked on the archives but I have not found anything yet about
> this issue and checking on other forums as well.  I am sure it might be a
> simple thing and I am extremely confused... :o(
>
>
> Peter Vidal
> PALL Corporation / SR Programmer Analyst, IT Development Group
> 10540 Ridge Rd., Ste 203, New Port Richey, FL 34654-5111
> http://www.pall.com
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