passing value to form objects

I have a PHP-MySQL setup, where people can register them selves to a database, this involves some checkboxes. Thing is when people later wants to edit their data, they are presented with a form, where their current information is allready filled in, ready to be edited, -BUT NOT THE CHECKBOXES!!
All the textboxes works fine, there I set the value attribute to the corresponding value in the database. The point is: when I have a value of true/yes, (as opposed to false/no) in the database, I want the checkboxes in the form to be checked. How do I do this? When the forms are used for outputting data, the state of the checkbox is not related to the value of the checkbox, this is only true for input of data.

you can pass the database value to a check box like this:

<?php

echo "<input type="checkbox" name="C1" value="yes"";

if( $row["check_val"]=="yes"){
# if database field value =yes then
echo "checked";
}
echo ">";

?>



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[This message has been edited by Shiju Rajan (edited May 30, 2000).]

I must say, the answer is SO SIMPLE, I could kick myself. No wonder I was unable to figure it out myself... Thanks a lot for the extremly quick and useable answer.