select box

[Anon]

I need to know how to retrieve the variables that have been selected from a multiple selection list box from a form. Is it passed as an array? How can i access the variables.
Thanks.
-Randy

[Anon]

Check this page... good demonstration of how it works:

http://www.siteexperts.com/tips/html/ts16/page1.asp

Dave

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[Anon]

Dave, the demonstration you noted uses javascipt. I simply wanted to know how to retrieve the select box vars using PHP once they have been submitted from a form.
Any ideas.
Thanks.
-Randy

[reagent]

you should have known that from the .asp extension 🙂

in your FORM code, do this

<select name="mySelect[]" multiple>
<option value="1">my option</option>
.
.
.
</select>

notice the '[]' after the name, this will allow PHP to process it.

on the page that gets this data you can just reference $mySelect as an array, so things like sizeof() will give you an idea of how many options were selected. you can treat this just as you would any other array in php.

note, the value of each element corresponds to the value="" in the option tag

p.

[Anon]

That was neat! I really needed this..thanx reagan!