Handle HTML checkboxes without javascript?

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Is there any way to handle (detect checked, count checked etc) dynamically created checkboxes in HTML without Javascript? Php echoes these checkboxes and I dont know much Javascript.

Simple functions that could detect if the user, for example, has clicked exactly 6 checkboxes then it would process the element in Php.

I'm making a "Edit Featured Friends" kind of page in a social networking site context. Thanks!

PHP is a server-side language. If you want an event to fire on the client, then you will have to use Javascript. — Kai
– Kai, Commented Apr 6, 2013 at 16:10

Niet the Dark Absol · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-06 16:17:00Z

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Assuming your checkboxes are being generated something like this:

echo '<input type="checkbox" name="boxes[]" /> Some label';

Then on your server-side code receiving the POST request you can do this:

if( count($_POST['boxes']) != 6) die("Please check exactly 6 boxes");

answered Apr 6, 2013 at 16:17

Niet the Dark Absol

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