Checkbox Values

[eluser]techgnome[/eluser]
Now I know why I stayed out of web development professionally... because to me that makes zippo sense. A checkbox is only going to have one of two values... true, false... 1, 0... (putting aside the oddity that is the tri-state checkbox) if it's checked, it's true... value should be 1. If it's unchecked, it's value should be false, or 0. Takes a lot less effort and bandwidth to transmit a 1 or 0 than "some_value_that_may_or_may_not_have_any_meaning_when_I_look_at_it" -- this is where I've seen people get tripped up... they can't separate the data stored from the data displayed and so want their databases and data to look exactly the same as what is seen on the screen. It's just highly inefficient. But eh, what ever, I'm not the one that has to deal with it.

my two centavos.

-tg