I REALLY NEED HELP

[Anon]

I'm using the following to display a drop list for users to select one value from. The contents comes from a database.

while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result2))
{ 
$fid = $row["fid"];
$format = $row["format"];            
$format = stripslashes($format);
$format = ucwords($format); 
echo("<OPTION VALUE='$fid'>$format</option>\n");
}
if(sizeof($formatlist) > 0)
{
foreach ($formatlist as $key2 => $value2)
{           

// echo $key2;
// echo $value2;
}
}
Then '$value2' and a few other are used in an insert statement. This all works fine.

However, all this was going on in the same page and as you can imagine it's not all that user friendly. What I'm now trying to do is send these vales to another page and do confirm messages and mysql inserts from there. Normal text fields go through ok, but when I try to parse '$value2' to the next page (i.e. action="nextpage.php?blah=$blah&value2=$value2") all I get is the string "$value2" instead of its content.

I've been at this for hours now and its getting frustrating.

HELP PLEASE

[Anon]

Perhaps this is a little clearer

The problem is that I don't know where it's broken.......

As I said the drop list is generated from a database query which works.
The selected value is then used in an insert query:
$sql4="INSERT INTO solution
VALUES (NULL, '$create_date', NULL, NULL, NULL, '$title', '$problem', '$solution', '$version', '$link', '$value3', '$value2', NULL)";
print "$sql4";
$result4=mysql_query($sql4);

Which also works.

But when I try to pass it between pages like this:
<form name="form1" method="post" action="today.php?life=$life&duration=$duration&title=$title&sql4=$sql4&problem=$problem&solution=$solution&link=$link&value2=$value2">

and then try:

echo $value2;

All I get is the name ($value2) not its value(i.e. 20).

[Anon]

I believe your problem is you need to break back into php before you try to display the variable in the form tag

example

..&value2=<?=$value2?>">

[jesus_hairdo]

shouldn't that be ..&value2=<? echo $value2 ?>"> ??

or is that what the '=' bit do ?