Forms and Multiple Slections

[Anon]

How can I pass multiple selections from a drop down menu?

I dont know if this is the right place to ask this but I am new to php so please be gentle.

I have one multiple option list box in my form and I need to pass multiple selections into my php page.
So then the results are emailed over.

The email works but when i select multple options only the last one is returned.

Thanks

[andrin]

If you have named your select element to "nameOfSelect". Then change it to "nameOfSelect[]". Now PHP can handle it as an array. For more info? Read The Manual.

Try it on the page receiving the form with:

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echo "<pre>";
print_r($_POST["nameOfSelect"]);
echo "</pre>";
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NOTE!
This is correct: $POST["nameOfSelect"]
This is incoorect: $POST["nameOfSelect[]"]

[Anon]

Thanks for the reply...but....

Im using very basic php code and for some reason i get a parse error.

Heres some of the code

HTML::::
<select name="Packages" multiple size="5">
<option>Word</option>
<option>Matchmaker</option>
<select name="Packages" multiple size="5">
<option>Word</option>
<option>Matchmaker</option>
<option>Excel</option>
<option>Lotus Notes</option>
<option>Outlook</option>
<option>Internet</option>
</select>

PHP::::
<?php

$message="Software Packages "."\n".$[Packages];

mail($emailname,$subject,$message);

?>

I need to get the selected packages into that one variable instead of just the last one been shown...

Im a complete beginner only started yesterday
Cheers

[Anon]

<select name="Packages" multiple size="5">
<option>Word</option>
<option>Matchmaker</option> ="5">

Please ignore this bit..........all other info below is correct