Need help with a php form!!!

sumday

Ok heres my problem. In php forms i know how to use $_POST but i dont know how to get farther than that and select the options from my form.

Here is my script you will notice that is submits the information to forest.php but i can't even print out the option data. Because if someone would select continue i would like it to print a different response than it would if you selected back. Does anybody know how to do this?

<?
session_start();
?>
<? print "Hello $user_name! Welcome to the forest!<br>
Many monsters live here so choose now to continue or turn back";
?>

<html>
<head>
<title>Forest Entrance</title>
</head>
<body>
<form name="frontforest" method="post" action="forest.php">
<p>  </p>
<p>
<select name=frontforest[]>
<option value="continue">Continue</option>
<option value="back">Back to town</option>
</select>
</p>
<p>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

stolzyboy

well you don't need the []'s in frontforest, since you aren't selecting multiple, then when you want to display something different dependent on selection do something like

<?
if ($_POST['frontforest'] == "continue")
{
echo "they hit continue";
}
else if ($_POST['frontforest'] == "back")
{
echo "they hit back";
}
else
{
echo "they hit nothing";
}
?>

sumday

THANK YOU VERY MUCH god you wont beleive how much time i spent trying to figure out such a simple probelem hahaha that was sad...but thanks again!

stolzyboy

np, mark the thread resolved, if you feel the issue is, the link is below