newbie form question...

[Anon]

Hi, i have a from with has the option of either being able to select an existing category from a dropdown box or add a new one into a textbox. The question is, the name of the dropdown is the same as the name of the textfield, when trying to submit the form (and it checks for empty fields) it does not seem to be recognising that i have selected a category in the dropdown and presumeably sees the empty textfield and prompts me to fill it. So, do i need to assign the dropdown a diferent name and then say, if category1 = "" && category="" then... else...???? of have i just not set up my form properly ?

[Anon]

For my experience name then seperately just do an if statement on the code that adds the entry to the database as to whether the form value exists in the query string.

[Anon]

So i should say something like
if selectform1 != "" then selectform1 = $category ??? not sure on how to write that properly... because i will need to pass that value from the dropdown box somehow if i name it differently wont I, how though???? thanks

[Anon]

what are you doing when the form is submitted?

[Anon]

what am i doing when the form is submitted....

f(isset($submit)){

if ($category == "") {
echo "Please fill in the category Field";
exit;
}
if ($subcategory == "") {
echo "No subcategory has been entered";

exit;
}
if ($name == "") {
echo "Please fill in the Name field";

exit;
}
if ($description == "") {
echo "Please fill in the description field";
exit;
}
if ($price == "") {
echo "Please enter a Price for your item";
exit;
}
if ($image_name == "") {
echo "Please enter a name for your image";
exit;
}
if ($userfile == "") {
echo "No image file has been selected for uploading";

exit;
}

and then if the fields are not empty...thenb these functions are executed

do_upload($userfile,$image_name);
do_upload_thumb($userfile,$image_name);
do_update($category,$subcategory,$name,$description,$price,$image_name);