I have a form on a page with some checkboxes (the name of each checkbox is the same). The checkboxes are retrieved from a database (Access & ASP) so there might be one or many checkboxes depending on which page the user is on. The value of the checkbox is the ID of the record.

I want the user to select whichever checkboxes they like and on the next page I want to use their selection as the WHERE clause or filter to retrieve data from another table where the ID number being passed is equal to a field in the table.

So currently someone clicks two from a possible four checkboxes and the ID numbers of the two they selected are 16 and 18. On the next page I can retrieve their selection via Request.Querystring and I get an array of 16,18. I can split that array so then I've got ID(0) = 16 and ID(1) = 18 but how do I retrieve from the database the two records whose ID is 16 and 18.

I'm not too good at writing my own recordsets I usually use the Dreamweaver recordset so I'm only used to filtering my recordsets by a single passed variable or cookie.

Sorry if I've not explained that too well, basically i need to say to the database return all records where the ID is equal to X, Y and Z (where XYZ are in an array and there might be just one ID (i.e. X) or there might be many.

Many thanks.

i've been dealing with this situaition. i'll work on the sample online demo for this one later.

cheers!

can you just post the database structure you used?

Someone else suggested I try SQL IN and it works a treat.

SELECT column_name FROM table_name
WHERE column_name IN (variable-array)

www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_in.asp

Thanks.