Multiple Selections with <select>

[trevorsg]

Hi,
I have a simple email form that sends form data to a php script which sends the email. I use the <select> HTML element so more than one email address can be chosen. How do these two values get sent to the php script? Right now, the variable just prints one of the two selections. Thanks for any help!

-Trevor

[NogDog]

Use an array-style name ("[]" on the end) for the HTML select element:

<select name='sample[]' multiple='multiple'>

In your script, you will then have a sub-array in the $POST array (or $GET if applicable) with the values selected ($POST['sample'][0], $POST['sample][1], etc...).

echo "<p>You selected:</p>\n";
echo "<ul>\n";
foreach($_POST['sample'] as $selection)
{
  echo "<li>$selection</li>\n";
}
echo "</ul>\n";

[trevorsg]

Thanks a lot. I will try that.