How to store values activated by buttons

[howps]

Hi,

I have several buttons. When clicked, the buttons will have some values attached to them. When unclicked, they will reset to empty.

This is so that when I hit a "Submit" button, the values in the earlier button will be populated at the end of the below statement:

abc.asp?subcd=

the values have to be separated by commas.
(this statement will be passed on to an asp file that will read the values)

eg.
abc.asp?subcd=john,nancy,sean,leon

do I need to use arrays?
I am not familiar with arrays, please help.

Would appreciate very much for any help rendered.
Thanks in advance.

Lawrence

[BobJohnson]

I assume you mean a checkbox not a button. If you're using the chekbox component then you check its value like this...

if(checkBox.selected) trace("selected");

where "checkBox" is the instance name. Since you'll probably have several checkboxes, though, you might want to use a loop instead of lots of ifs. Maybe something like....

queryString = "";
numberCheckBoxes = 4;//checkBoxes named checkBox1, checkBox2, etc.
submitButton.onRelease = function() {
for(n=1; n<numberCheckBoxes; n++) {
if(eval("checkBox"+n).selected) {
if(queryString == "") queryString += eval("checkBox"+n).label;
else queryString += ","+eval("checkBox"+n).label;
}
}
getURL("abc.asp?subcd="+queryString , "");
}