Code help

Hello,
I am new to PHP coding, and I need help with a code.

<?
if ($HTTP_POST_VARS['check']) {

$box=$HTTP_POST_VARS['box1']; //as a normal var
$box_count=count($box); // count how many values in array

foreach ($box as $dear) {
echo $dear."<br>";
}
echo "<hr>";
}
?>
<form name="hede" method="POST" action="">
<input type="checkbox" name="box1[]" value="

&lt;Effect name="ARMY Change Name"&lt;
&lt;Param name="SrcArmy" dispName="$$22348$$Army" VarType="group"&lt;default&lt;/Param&lt;
&lt;Param name="NewName" dispName="$$23784$$Name" varType="stringid"&lt;Name&lt;/Param&lt;
&lt;Command&lt;trArmySelect("%SrcArmy%");&lt;/Command&lt;
&lt;Command&lt;trUnitChangeName("%NewName%");&lt;/Command&lt;
&lt;/Effect&lt;

"> Army change name <br>

<input type="checkbox" name="box1[]" value="
&lt;Effect name="ARMY Damage"&lt;
&lt;Param name="SrcArmy" dispName="$$22348$$Army" VarType="group"&lt;default&lt;/Param&lt;
&lt;Param name="DamageAmt" dispName="$$23762$$DamagePct" varType="float"&lt;1&lt;/Param&lt;
&lt;Command&lt;trArmySelect("%SrcArmy%");&lt;/Command&lt;
&lt;Command&lt;trDamageUnit(%DamageAmt%);&lt;/Command&lt;
&lt;/Effect&lt;

">Army damage<br>

<input type="submit" name="check" value="SEND">

</form>

In the "value" area, I changed the "<" to "&lt; I assumed that this would work, but it isn't. Also, there are many more options in the final, but to save space I didn't put them all here. Here is what I want to happen, the user selects the boxs, and when he presses submit, the code will appear on top, but I just can't get it to work!Some help would be greatly appreciated, whats wrong with it?

the quotes are screwing up your HTML output. rather than passing all of that rather unwieldly code in your form why not just pass a pointer to an array. something like this:

<?php
$boxes = array(

1 => '&lt;Effect name="ARMY Change Name"&lt;
&lt;Param name="SrcArmy" dispName="$$22348$$Army" VarType="group"&lt;default&lt;/Param&lt;
&lt;Param name="NewName" dispName="$$23784$$Name" varType="stringid"&lt;Name&lt;/Param&lt;
&lt;Command&lt;trArmySelect("%SrcArmy%");&lt;/Command&lt;
&lt;Command&lt;trUnitChangeName("%NewName%");&lt;/Command&lt;
&lt;/Effect&lt;',

2 => '&lt;Effect name="ARMY Damage"&lt;
&lt;Param name="SrcArmy" dispName="$$22348$$Army" VarType="group"&lt;default&lt;/Param&lt;
&lt;Param name="DamageAmt" dispName="$$23762$$DamagePct" varType="float"&lt;1&lt;/Param&lt;
&lt;Command&lt;trArmySelect("%SrcArmy%");&lt;/Command&lt;
&lt;Command&lt;trDamageUnit(%DamageAmt%);&lt;/Command&lt;
&lt;/Effect&lt;'

);

if (isset($_POST['box']))
{
foreach ($_POST['box'] as $value) {echo $boxes[$value] . '<br>';}
echo '<hr>';
}
?>

<form action="" method="POST">
<input type="checkbox" name="box[]" value="1">Army change name<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="box[]" value="2">Army damage<br>
<input type="submit" name="check" value="SEND">
</form>

Thank you very much, it works!

I can't get the "check all" and "uncheck all" script to work with this code, any help? Also can I have a "group select" button. Example:

([]=checkbox) ([button])

[check all]
[uncheck all]

[]Select all army
[] army...
[] army...
[] army...
[] army...

[]Select all QV
[] QV...
[] QV...
[] QV...

Thats the basic layout I want. Thanks for all the help!

that is a javascript question. this is a PHP forum. post that question in the appropriate forum.

Oh, right. Thanks.