how can i insert multiple selected checkbox values into a mysql database column using an array using java?

Do you know how to 'pack' an integer? That is the fastest code. If you have nine checkboxes you would have a number like 1000000000 (nine zeroes). Then you flip the bits for the checkboxes using ActionListener. Therefore 1001011101 would be the number 605.

If you want to get a collection of the checked checkboxes, you would put the checkboxes on their own panel. Lets call that JPanel 'options' and you have added 12 JCheckboxes. You would have a method to grab the boxes as an array. The chekcboxes you have added the property:

checkBox ck = new JCheckBox( checkBoxNames[ i ];

ck.setName( checkBoxNames[ 1 ] );

// then, when you want to inventory the selections...

Component[] c = options.getComponents();

String selectedOptions = "";

for (int i = 0; i < c.length; i++) {

check = (JCheckBox) c[i];

if (check.isSelected()) {

selectedOptions += check.getName();

selectedOptions += ",";

}

}

You end up with a String like: "large,medium,small,extraLarge,";

And you can add that String to the DataBase. You get the array with String[] ckssplit = selectedOptions.split( "," );

// There might be other ways, but the idea is you will configure your own framework to make the GUI represent the dataBase field.

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