Value from textbox to php

[Anon]

I'm trying to check a textbox and send a different SELECT query to MySQL from PHP depending on what the user has selected from the textbox on the page. Can anyone please tell me a way I could do this?

[Anon]

..I mean listbox not textbox!

[Anon]

You really need to read the manual. This is really very basic PHP:

<?
if ($listboxValue == "blah") {
$query = "blah";
} elseif ($listboxValue == "blah2") {
$query = "blah2";
} else {
$query = "blah3";
}
?>

[Anon]

I know how to do if statements and queries but I don't know how to get the value from the listbox, and I'm sure $listboxvalue isn't going to retrieve the value, it's just going to make a new empty variable called $listboxvalue.

[simon_belak]

the vaulue will be stored in $HTTP_POST_VARS[name_of_the_listbox].
if it is a mulit-select listbox that var will ba an arrray where the first choice will have index 0 and so on.

[Anon]

Thanks Simon, that's the answer I was looking for.