Selection Box

[Jon7800]

hello all, i'm looking to have a selection box of users pulled from a mysql database (that part works fine).

I want to be able to choose serveral users from that box, move them into a 'chosen user' box. Then i want to have another form text box to type a message into. Once all of this is done, i want to post the multiple ID's selected originally and the message text to another page. I want this page to then insert the message text into the database tables for each ID that was selected originally. And then, i want this information emailed to each ID. (each ID has an email address accociated with it). Can this be done with strictly PHP, or will i have to incorporate javascript? I cannot seem to pass a javascript variable AND a php variable to the next page. Please advise!!
Thank you!

[yelvington]

Yes, it can be done strictly with PHP.

<select multiple name=foo[]>

When PHP sees an input variable whose name is followed by brackets, it creates that variable as an array.

Loop through that array and do your stuff.

[Jon7800]

I have no problem populating the original selection box. I grab all employees out of the database (about 150). From there, i want to be able to have users select any number of employees from 1-whatever.. and have those names show up in another 'selected employees box' It is these selected employees that the post needs to do work for. This is where I think javascript will have to come into play?

[yelvington]

If you want to dynamically copy selections to something else on the page, potentially for further user interaction, without submitting the form, then that's client side scripting, and Javascript is your tool.

But if the user is done making the multi selection, there's no need. The selections will be passed to PHP when the form is submitted.