[Resolved] refresh the page and pass the listbox value

wheeler08

I have a page that refreshes when the user picks a value from a listbox.

When the page refreshes, I want the value selected from the list box to be displayed as the selected value (instead of the default one).

For example:

A list box contains:

Red <-- This colour is the value that is displayed when loaded
Green

Blue
Yellow
Orange

If I pick Yellow, I want the page to refresh, making yellow the new selected value in the list box.

I have been playing with code and can't seem to get PHP or javascript to work... if someone could throw me an example with some code I would really appreciate it 🙂

jsim

<html>
<body>

<form>
<select name="list" onchange="submit();">
<?php

$list = array('Red','Green','Blue','Yellow','Orange');
$list_id = (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['list'];

for( $i=0; $i<count($list); $i++ ) {
  echo "<option value=".$i;
  if( $i == $list_id ) {
    echo ' selected';
  }
  echo ">".$list[$i]."</option>\n";
}

?>
</select>
</form>

</body>
</html>

wheeler08

Code looks good, however, the problem I am having is with the submiting... I simply need the page to refresh, not submit.

Here is what I am using:

// This is the function to redirect to another page

function MM_goToURL() {
var i, args=MM_goToURL.arguments; document.MM_returnValue = false;
for (i=0; i<(args.length-1); i+=2) eval(args+".location='"+args[i+1]+"'");
}

// This is the select tag, that on change will refresh the page. I just need to somehow attach the value in the select box to the URL (list.php) when it refreshes....

<select name="list" onchange="MM_goToURL('parent.self','list.php');return document.MM_returnValue"">

jsim

Try this tag:

<select name="list" onchange="MM_goToURL('parent.self','list.php?list='+this.options[this.selectedIndex].value);return document.MM_returnValue"">

wheeler08

This worked with a lot of "custom" modifications 🙂

Thank you!