getting info from drop-downs

habbardone

Hi,
I am still fairly new to php and I must be missing something obvious !

I have a form that uses several drop-down selections like these:

<td class = "cl_props_add_td" ><select name="Locn">
<option value="a">Fethiye Calis</option>
<option value="b">Fethiye</option>
<option value="c">Ovacik/Hisar</option>
<option value="d">Kas</option>
<option value="e">Kalkan</option>
<option value="f">Gocek</option>
</select></td>

what do I use to post include these in the POST ?

I guess I need an <input type ???
but I am not sure which one or how to do it.

Same question applies to the <textarea> command - I have one of these in the form :

<td class = "cl_props_add_td" >Description 2: </td>
<td colspan = "5" ><textarea name="desc2" value="Long Description (1000 char)"
rows = 4 cols = 43 > </textarea></td>

Again - what do I use to include it in the $_POST - or is it already included somehow ?

How do I retrieve them ?

Thanks for any help,

laserlight

The form method="post", and then use $_POST['Locn']

Aaxiler

your form should start like this:

<td class = "cl_props_add_td">
<form method="post" action="page-name.php">
<select name="Locn"> 
<option value="a">Fethiye Calis</option> 
<option value="b">Fethiye</option> 
<option value="c">Ovacik/Hisar</option> 
<option value="d">Kas</option> 
<option value="e">Kalkan</option> 
<option value="f">Gocek</option> 
</select>
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit"></form></td>

You also needed a submit button. When the submit button is clicked it will go to the action destination.

When it is there you can check the values and use them by doing this:

<?php
$Locn = $_POST['Locn'];
echo $Locn;
?>

Your values are passed on to this page and then retrieved using the $_POST['valuename'] idea.

Same thing goes for the text area, all the info is stored in the $_POST array waiting for you to pull it out.

habbardone

Ok - thanks a lot, for some reason
i thought i needed a <input> but it seems that it is already done with the select tag
and the textarea tag - I just need to name them and the name is in the $_post array after being submitted.
Thanks again.