listbox

[langthang]

I created an listbox to display the list of data from my database. I'm looking for help on retrieve the value of item that I'm selected from the listbox. Please help.

Here is my code for creating the listbox

$temp .= "<center><SELECT SIZE = \"10\" NAME=\"listbox1\">";
for ($i = 0; $i < sql_num_rows($result,$dbi); $i++) {
$row = sql_fetch_array($result,$dbi);
$temp .= "<OPTION VALUE=" .$row["project_id"].">";
$temp .= $row["project"];
}
$temp .= "</SELECT></center>";

Thanks in advance

[nemonoman]

Do you mean you want to find out what item the user clicked?

You'd make a form:

<form name=myform method=post action=myaction.php>

Then echo your list

Add a submit button:

<input type=submit value='What Did I Choose?'>

close the form:

</form>

When the user clicks the submit button, that choice will be POSTed to the file listed as the action tag; in this case myaction.php.

myaction.php would be something like:

<?
$userchoice=$_POST['listbox1']

// (the array key will be the variable name for you listbox

echo "The user chose $userchoice";

?>

$userchoice will be the VALUE you pushed into the item chosen by the user.