Check Value of Select Box

[Anon]

How the heck do you check the value of what is selected in a drop down select box?

I have my drop down created, but when a user selects a new value from them I need to check the value and return the appropriate rows from a db...

Thanks in advance

[billp]

Well, your drop down is
<select name=the_value>
<option value="a">A</option>
<option value="b">B</option>
</select>

So in your php, if they select A, it's $the_value is equal to "a".

Your mysql query would have "where field_name = '$the_value'"

[Anon]

That's kinda what I thought...but when debugging, the value of $the_value is NULL even though an item is selected....

See below:

$date=date("F");
$months = array("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December");
echo "<SELECT name=gomonth>";
for($i=0; $i<1; $i++)
{
if ($date==$months[$i])
{
echo $sel = ' selected';
}
else
{
$sel = '';
}
echo '<option value="'.$months[$i].'"'.$sel.'>'.$months[$i].'</option>';
}
echo "</SELECT>";
$monthselected = $gomonth;