Form's Select Element

[Anon]

I want to know that if I build a form's select element multiple. The problem is this,
if my user chooses more than one items I want to store these selected items in my database's table and I also have to count these. How can I do this?

[Anon]

When you build your form, name the select element as an array:

  <SELECT NAME="ITEMS[]" SIZE="5" MULTIPLE>

That way, when the form is processed by your php script, you can access the individual selected options like this:

for ($i=0; $i < sizeof($ITEMS); $i++) {
// do whatever you want with $ITEMS[$i] here
}

Note that sizeof($ITEMS) will give you the number of selected items.

HTH

-- Rich Rijnders
-- Irvine, CA US