Getting value of <option> to submit button

[NetRoam]

Hi!

I have a little script where I want a user to be able to add different recipients to a recipient-list so they can just select a particular recipient - click a submit button and be forwarded to a page where they can fill out a form for this exact recipient only (meaning that the recipient-data is already there).

So I have a drop-down list of recipients with each their unique ID called $br_ID - but for some reason I have a difficult time figuring out how to post this $br_ID in the submit button so I can be sent from booking_profile.php to booking_send.php with a number of variables attached to it (in this case I need to attach the user's variable $b_userID and the recipient's variable $br_ID)

Anyone know a solution to this? The drop-down list is coded like this:

<select name="company_select" class="form" style="width: 160px;"> 

<? 
  $query = "select * from booking_recipient where b_userID = '".$_SESSION['b_userID']."'"; 
  $result = mysql_query($query) or die("".mysql_errno()." Error: ".mysql_error()); 
?> 

<option value="0">------ empty recipient ------</option> 

<? 
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) 
{ 
  $br_ID = $row['br_ID']; 
  $br_company = $row['br_company']; 
?> 

<option value="<? echo $br_ID ?>"><? echo $br_company ?></option> 

<? 
} 
?> 

</select>

I just can't get neither the value 0 if an empty recipient is selected nor any other values even though $br_ID does give me an output.

[MastahUK]

That code seems fine to me, I think it might just be how you are trying to access the variables. I assume your form tag looks similar to this:

<form method="post" action="booking_send.php ">

Then all you need to do in the 'booking_send.php' page is access the variables like this:

echo $_POST['br_ID']

[NetRoam]

Yes, the form is made like that, but for some reason I still can't get that value in the <option> put out as a variable - I'd like the exact URL to be like this:

booking_send.php?b_userID=$b_userID&br_ID=$br_ID

I for example have a user I'm testing with right now that has b_userID = 3 ... that did work when I put that in the link ... but the $br_ID (or $company_select as that's the name of the <select> object) doesn't want to provide me with a value and that's the thing I really need

Addition

Could it have something to do with the fact that my register_globals are set to off? I have to program with that set to off because the server doesn't allow it to be on ... would that help in finding the solution perhaps?