Who knows this simple thing?

[angela5]

Hi,

There is a dating script in the registration form select box 'purpose' have only 1 choice, I want to modify this select box a little bit, I want to make multiple choice. How it is possible?
The original (there are other fields too):

<?php
……
mysql_query("INSERT INTO ".C_MYSQL_MEMBERS." VALUES ('', ".$usr." '".$fname."','".$lname."','".$pass."', ETC
'".$purpose."',' ETC …

<form action=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; method="post">

<select name="purpose" class="input"><option selected value=0> --------- 
<? $p=1;while(isset($wp[$p])) {echo '<option value="'.$p.'">'.$wp[$p];$p++;}
?>
</select>

There is $wp in other file saved as array
$wp=array(
'for unknown',
'for romantic',
'for long relationship',
'for friendship',
'for sex services'
);

I have changed it:

<?php

mysql_query("INSERT INTO ".C_MYSQL_MEMBERS." VALUES ('', ".$usr." '".$fname."','".$lname."','".$pass."', ETC…
'".$purpose."',' ETC 

<form action=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; method="post">

<select multiple name="purpose" class="input" size=4>
<option selected value=0> --------- </option>
<option value=1>for romantic </option>
<option value=2>for long relationship</option>
<option value=3>for frindship </option>
<option value=4>for sex services</option>
</select>

but it works still as 1 choice. please see: http://meet.siteburg.com/test.php

selectbox 'the type of relation'
When added [] to <select multiple name="purpose[]" - not writes any choice.

Please help,
Angela

[bpat1434]

All values in HTML tags should be enclosed with quotes.

And when you added the [] to purpose, it should work. You just have to refer to it as an array. So you would have to check how many there are, and loop through the number. Something like:

foreach($_POST['purpose'] as $val)
{
    // do something with it
    echo $val;
}

~Brett

[angela5]

bpat1434 thank you for suggestion, I'm newbie in php, when I put it as you stated:

<select multiple name="purpose[]" class="input" size=4>
<option selected value=0> --------- </option>
<option value=1>for romantic </option>
<option value=2>for long relationship</option>
<option value=3>for frindship </option>
<option value=4>for sex services</option>
</select>
<? foreach($_POST['purpose'] as $val) 
{ 
     echo $val; 
}
?>

getting: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() error.

Can you write as a whole php part? thanks a lot in advance.

[bpat1434]

<?php

if(isset($_POST['purpose']) && !empty($_POST['purpose']))
{
	foreach($_POST['purpose'] as $val)
	{
		echo $val."<br>\n";
	}
}
else
{
?>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="post">
	<select multiple name="purpose[]">
		<option value="romantic">for romantic </option>
		<option value="long relationship">for long relationship</option>
		<option value="friendship">for friendship </option>
		<option value="sex services">for sex services</option>
	</select>
	<input type="submit" name="Submit">
</form>
<?php
}
?>

It works.

~Brett