Menu select correspond to radio button

[Anon]

I have a form where the usr selects a picture and a color to use for that picture. The pitctures are numbered sequentially, so the structure looks something like this:

pic 1
- green (pic 2)
- blue (pic 3)
- red (pic 4)

pic 5
- blue (pic 6)
- orange (pic 7)
- purple (pic 8)

The user first selects which picture to use by choosing a radio button beneath the picture, and then (on the same page) selects what color to use from a drop down menu under the picture. When the form is submitted, I can get the value of the radio button, but it shows the last menu item. My question is, how can I determine what menu option was selected that corresponds to the picture that was chosen via the radio button? Thanks for any suggestions!

[jordan]

Though I kind of struggled through the wording of your post, James, what I think is your problem is that you're giving all of your drop-down menus the same name. If this is not the case, disregard my whole post.

In PHP, if a number of form elements have the same name, the corresponding variable will have the value of the last form element with that name.

There are two ways to work around this. The first is to give every menu a different name. For example, give the menu under the first pic the name "menu_1", under the second pic, "menu_2", and so on. Then have PHP read the value corresponding to the radio button selected.

The second is to give each menu the same name, but end it with "[]". If you do this, PHP will put all of the values for those menus into an array. For example, if you called them all "menu[]", their values would be stored in the array $menu. Once you have all of the values in the array, you can use your radio button value to determine which array element to read -- for example, if the user clicks on the first radio button, have PHP read $menu[0].