Need some advice about a php script

wvmlt

I have an ad creator here click The options for tet size, color and font work if you type them in such as 20px, blue and verdana. I tried making drop menus using

<select name="color">
<option value="white">white</option>
<option selected value="black">black</option>
<option value="blue">blue</option>
<option value="cyan">cyan</option>
<option value="gray">gray</option>
<option value="green">green</option>
<option value="purple">purple</option>
<option value="red">red</option>
<option value="yellow">yellow</option>
<option value="pink">pink</option>
<option value="lavender">lavender</option>
<option value="navy">navy</option>
</select>

This looks good but doesn't work. Now matter which options are chosen, the text stays the same.

helz

are talking about changing the colour of the text in the textbox/area or text after youve posted the information?

wvmlt

After it's been posted and "Show ad" is clicked.

helz

have you set it so that when the colour has been chosen that the colour is added into a <font> tag?
im pretty sure that the color='' is a hex number so it might be easier to change the drop down box values to their hexidecimal counterparts and then have the name as the name of the colour.
eg:
<select name="color">
<option value="FFFFFF">white</option>
<option selected value="000000">black</option>
<option value="0000FF">blue</option>
<option value="00FFFF">cyan</option>
<option value="707070">gray</option>
<option value="3B5E2B">green</option>
<option value="7D26CD">purple</option>
<option value="CD0000">red</option>
<option value="EEEE00">yellow</option>
<option value="EE7AE9">pink</option>
<option value="7B68EE">lavender</option>
<option value="191970">navy</option>
</select>

on the posted page....
<font color='#".$_POST['color']."'> test color </font>

to make it easier on the user you might want to colour each text in the drop down box, like they do on this forum

wvmlt

have you set it so that when the colour has been chosen that the colour is added into a <font> tag?

How do I do that?

helz

<font color='#".$_POST['color']."'> test color </font>

so on the posted page it gets the value that was posted from the drop down box and puts it after the hash ( # ) so that any text within the <font> tags are the colour that was chosen from the form.