mixing results of checkboxes

Hatchingabrain · April 2nd, 2005, 02:07 AM

I have 100 checkboxes on page1.htm... the user selects any number of them and the results are transfered by cookie to page2.asp the results are in the format {formresult="1,4,65,98"}
I can remove the commas and assign each number to a array'd value...
{val= new Array("one","two","three","four","five",...(etc... )}
where as my output is:
val[0]="one"
val[1]="four"
val[2]="sixty-five"
val[3]="ninety-eight"

now:
I would like to be able to mix the values of the array so that if 1 and 4 are selected then item A is displayed
if 65 and 98 are selected then item b is displayed etc...

without having to write a billion if && then statements for each possible condition.

TIA

:)

Hatchingabrain · April 2nd, 2005, 02:13 AM

Currently I have a BASIC BASIC example of what I want (and don't want for a 100 checkboxes....) and you don't have to tell me I put in too many {} and ;;; all over the place... welcome to the world of netscape's javascript console... :D

<html><head>
  <title>color change demo</title>
  <script language="JavaScript">
function startme ()

{
var boxes = document.f1.color.length
var nbxs = 0
    document.bgColor="white";
for (i=0; i<boxes; i++)
  {if (document.f1.color[i].checked)
        {nbxs++} }

if (nbxs == 0)
    {res = "white"}
else if (nbxs == 3)
    {res = "black"}
else if (nbxs == 1 && document.f1.color[0].checked)
    {res = "red"}
else if (nbxs == 1 && document.f1.color[1].checked)
    {res = "yellow"}
else if (nbxs == 1 && document.f1.color[2].checked)
    {res = "blue"}
else if (document.f1.color[0].checked && document.f1.color[1].checked)
    {res = "Orange"}
else if (document.f1.color[0].checked && document.f1.color[2].checked)
    {res = "Purple"}
else if (document.f1.color[1].checked && document.f1.color[2].checked)
    {res = "Green"}
else
    {res = ""}

{document.bgColor=res};

}
  </script></head>
<body><br>
<form name="f1" onclick="startme()" enctype="text/plain"><br>
<h1>mix colors!</h1>
<h2><input name="color" value="red" type="checkbox">red<br>
<br><input name="color" value="yellow" type="checkbox">yellow<br>
<br><input name="color" value="blue" type="checkbox">blue</h2><br>
<br></form>
</body></html>

vinod_yadav1919 · April 4th, 2005, 04:02 AM

Please find the answer at
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28747

Cheers :)

vinod