Select Form problem, wrong value

[Anon]

I have an html form with several select lists defined with several options for each one.

value="Option 1">Option 1
value="Option 2">Option 2
...

When I submit this form it goes to a php file for processing. The problem is that the value is for the options is not getting passed correctly. When I print out the received value for any of the select lists, I don't get the assigned option value, but rather 1 or 2 or 3 ...... which is the position of the option in the list. I want the assigned value of the option.

Any Ideas?

Mark

[Anon]

Is the embedded space perhaps causing the problem?

[Anon]

Sorry that was just for reference, there are actually no embedded spaces but there are hyphens, could that be the problem?

[Anon]

Can you post some code for us to see?

scott d~

[Anon]

snippet from the html form:

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.
.
<form
action="tssubmit.php"
method="POST" name="TimeSheet">

.
.
<tr>
<td>
<select name="WorkOrder1" size="1" width="15">
<option selected value=""> </option>
<option value="171099-01"> 171099-01, LMER GAAT-1 </option>
<option value="171099-02"> 171099-02, LMER GAAT-2 </option>
<option value="171099-03"> 171099-03, LMER GAAT-3 </option>
.
.
.
</select>
</td>

Processing php form:

 print ($EmployeeNo);
 print (" $");
 print ($WeekEndDate);
 print (" #");
 print ($WorkOrder1);

The Print $WorkOrder1 statement will not output the assigned values above. It outputs 1 or 2 or 3 etc.

The data is actually being stored in a MySQL database, but I set up the print statements for testing.

[Anon]

I just tested the following and it worked:

<?php

if($WorkOrder1)
{
print ($EmployeeNo);
print (" $");
print ($WeekEndDate);
print (" #");
print ($WorkOrder1);
}
?>

<form
action="<?php echo($PHP_SELF); ?>"
method="POST" name="TimeSheet">
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<select name="WorkOrder1" size="1" width="15">
<option selected value=""> </option>
<option value="171099-01"> 171099-01, LMER GAAT-1 </option>
<option value="171099-02"> 171099-02, LMER GAAT-2 </option>
<option value="171099-03"> 171099-03, LMER GAAT-3 </option>
.
.
.
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="submit"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

It printed out "$#171099-02".

There must be something else that is really simple that you are missing?

scott d`

[Anon]

Mark:

Try changing your values in your options. Then see if $WorkOrder1 has the correct value.

Otherwise I can't see what is wrong.

[Anon]

ok this is really weird, I changed the submit method to GET and looked at the resulting url on the submit program.

http://server/test/tssubmit.php?&WorkOrder1=Marketing+%28Overhead%29&Description1=adsfsad&Sun1=&Mon1=1&Tue1=1&Wed1=&Thu1=&Fri1=&Sat1=&Total1=2.........

and it shows the WorkOrder1 as being equal to "Marketing Overhead" but when I print out this value, I get 66 which corresponds to the 66th entry in the option list.

Mark

[Anon]

I don't know if spaces are causing the trouble.
Otherwise try adding brackets to your select_name. Like :
<form
action="tssubmit.php"
method="POST" name="TimeSheet">
.
.
<tr>
<td>
<select name="WorkOrder1[]" size="1" width="15">
<option selected value=""> </option>
<option value="171099-01"> 171099-01, LMER GAAT-1 </option>
<option value="171099-02"> 171099-02, LMER GAAT-2 </option>
<option value="171099-03"> 171099-03, LMER GAAT-3 </option>
.
.
.
</select>
</td>

[Anon]

Ok, don't ask me why, but I solved the problem with this form. Using "WorkOrder1" as the select name causes php to output the position of the Option in the list and not the value of the option. This was true is I used "WorkOrder2", "WorkOrder3", etc. No matter what I tried, I still got the position out instead of the value. So, I finally changed the name to "WorkOrderOne" and everything was happy, now it outputs everything correctly.

Thanks to everyone who tried to give me some help.

Mark