radio buttons & pull down menus

fondue

hey, just needed to find out how to $_POST these vars.

right now the code is:

<select name="resonforpurchase"  id="resonforpurchase">
              <option> </option>
              <option value="primary residence">primary residence</option>
              <option value="second or vacation home">second or vacation home</option>
              <option value="corporate purchase">corporate purchase</option>
              <option value="investment">investment</option>
</select>

and

 Rent 
 <input name="rent" type="checkbox" id="rent" value="rent">
&nbsp;
 Own</label>
<input name="own" type="checkbox" id="own" value="own">

how do i code out the response in my php document??

fondue

please someone?

Weedpacket

fondue wrote:
please someone?

Oh, I am sorry! I was sitting on a train when I should have been here to answer your question the instant it was posted instead of forcing you to wait for MORE THAN AN HOUR! Wicked, wicked Weedpacket!

Have you even looked in the $_POST array yet to see if they're there?

print_r($_POST)

etully

I don't completely understand what you meant when you wrote, "how do i code out the response in my php document??"

I assume you have a <form action=""> tag on your HTML page with the form, yes?
And that posts to a PHP page?
And what do you want the PHP page to do? Print the data? Email the data?

It's very common around here for people to ignore your question when they don't understand what you're asking.

fondue

my appologies, in reflecting on what i initially posted i guess i wasnt very clear.

yes, i needed this information to be emailed, and was having trouble with the vars for both a radio button and a list menu. although i had figured out that i was trying to make this alot larger of a process than i really needed to. so i am sorry to raise the "help needed" flag when i really just needed to play with it more and show you guys what i had found to make sure i was doing it right.

here is what i came up with:

$homeownership = ($_POST['homeownership']);
$reasonforpurchase = ($_POST['reasonforpurchase']);

and in my html:

<p class="maintext10pt">Home Ownership  -<br>
         <input type="radio" name="homeownership" value="own" />Own&nbsp;&nbsp;
	 <input type="radio" name="homeownership" value="rent" />Rent<br />
</p>

<p><span class="maintext10pt">Reason For Purchasing? -</span><br>
            <label>
            <select name="reasonforpurchase" class="textfeild12pt" id="reasonforpurchase">
              <option> </option>
              <option value="primary residence">primary residence</option>
              <option value="second or vacation home">second or vacation home</option>
              <option value="corporate purchase">corporate purchase</option>
              <option value="investment">investment</option>
            </select>
            </label>
</p>

i was concerned that if i give 2 different options the same var name but different values, the php wouldnt find out what value was selected by the user. although, as i later found out in some of my reading, that $POST will basically go through the html doc, look for vars and $POST them to do what ever you want to do with them. it all makes sense to me now but at the time i was very confused.