drop down menus and arrays

[Anon]

I'm trying to figure out how to create a multiple select drop down menu on a form that will then insert it's info into an array rather than a regular variable.

Example: I have a drop down menu called State. The user can select multiple states by control clicking.

Currently when I control click 3 states and submit to a page that is just set to echo $State, it returns the very last item in the list (alphabetical), so if they clicked AL, AZ, and CT, all that is echoed is CT.

How do I set that drop down to feed into an array on the page that parses this form?

[Anon]

In the HTML, put a [] after the name of the select to make php treat it as an array

i.e.

<SELECT NAME="states[]"><OPTION .....

</SELECT>

Hope that helps

Chris King

[Anon]

thank you. that was exactly what I was looking for.