Multiple selections in <select tag not posting all values

[jamessmb]

Hi,

I have this tag in my form:
<select name="campus" size="7" multiple id="campus">

When I post, only the last selection of what was selected is posted.

<?php print_r($_POST['campus']); ?>

prints only 1 value.

In ColdFusion, I could <cfoutput>#FORM.campus#</cfoutput> and it would show:

1,3,5 (or whatever had been selected)

Does PHP handle multiple selects differently?

Thanks,
James

[dustbuster]

When doing multiple selects the values that are posted to the script are done in an array.

So you need to define the name as an array

Thus

<select name="campus" size="7" multiple id="campus">

becomes

<select name="campus[]" size="7" multiple id="campus">

Notice the [] after campus.

In your next script just access $campus[0], $campus[1]... or a foreach statement.