How to add the data from a checkbox as a meta key/pair

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  lengluilengchai · Member · Oct 23, 2011 at 12:16 pm

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  Hi All,

  How do i add the data from a checkbox as a meta key?? I tried googling alot , most of the google results pointed towards creating a meta box in the admin area. What i want is simple form processing if the user selects multiple value and these values are stored as part of the meta key for a given post. :P

  <form method = “post” action = “ppp.php”>
  <input type = “checkbox” name = “mycheck[]” value = “orange”>ORANGE
  <input type = “checkbox” name = “mycheck[]” value = “apple”>APPLE
  <input type = “checkbox” name = “mycheck[]” value = “banana”>BANANA
  <input type = “checkbox” name = “mycheck[]” value = “pear”>PEAR
  <input type = “checkbox” name = “mycheck[]” value = “gauva”>GUAVA
  <input type = “submit” name = “send” value = “SEND”>
  </form>

  i tried the following but don’t work..

  Do i need to do some serializing??

  add_post_meta($published_id, ‘META_mycheck’, $mycheck, true);

  And later do i extract the data using the get_post_data?? Do i need some foreach loop?

  Thanks, in advance..

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 23, 2011 at 12:23 pm

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  The site linked to your name is empty – what is the URL of the site you are asking about?

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/7-things-to-know-before-posting-in-wordpresscom-forums?replies=1

  For more on the difference: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  lengluilengchai · Member · Oct 23, 2011 at 1:02 pm

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  Hi Auxclass,

  My blog is not up because of that problem :(

  It should be a simple solution but i am a newbie here..

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 23, 2011 at 1:08 pm

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  You are probably in the wrong forum that is why we want the url of your site to try and see if you are even in the right forum – this forum is for support of sites hosted on WordPress.COM

  Without the URL you are wasting all of our time and effort

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  lengluilengchai · Member · Oct 23, 2011 at 1:23 pm

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  let me close this post and move to the correct forum

  Sorry for wasting your time.