[RESOLVED] Getting text (not value) of select option in PHP

quasitonic

I have an RSVP form, setup to display additional questions based on whether they are attending or not. The select options are valued 1 for yes, and 2 for no. I would like to give instant feedback when the form is submitted, and also in the email I get for each RSVP which displays "yes" or "no" based on the option selected.

Here's the code I have for the select box:

<form action="action.php" method="post">
Will you be attending?
<select id="yesno" name="yesno">
<option value="0">Select One</option>
<option value="1">Yes</option>
<option value="2">No</option>
</select>

Then on the action.php form, I have:

$yesno=$_POST["yesno"];

to retrieve it

I tried using:

if($yesno="1")
$reply="yes";
else
$reply="no";

but it returns the same answer regardless of which option is actually selected on the form.

Any help is appreciated.

bradgrafelman

That's because you're using the assignment operator - the single equal sign. Thus, your if() statement is actually changing the value of $yesno to "1". Instead, you want to use the comparison operator (double equal sign) to see if the two values are equal. See this manual page for more information on the latter: [man]operators.comparison[/man].

Also note that you could achieve the same effect in a much more concise fashion using the ternary operator:

$reply = ($_POST['yesno'] == 1 ? "yes" : "no");

Then again, you wouldn't even need that one-liner if you actually used "yes" and "no" as the values for the <option> elements...

quasitonic

Thanks - that worked! (I considered changing the values to yes/no, but couldn't figure out how to change some javascript code that I found to show/hide various menus so I decided not to mess with it.)

I tried:

$yesno = ($_POST['yesno'] == 1 ? "yes" : "no");

and

$yesno = $_POST['yesno'];
$reply=($_POST['yesno'] == 1 ? "yes" : "no");

And they both seem to work fine - I get "yes" or "no" instead of 1 or 2.

Now I have another problem - after I retrieved the form info, I used the mail() function to send it to myself via email (which works fine) and following that had this:

echo "Your reply was: $reply.<br>";

And now that I added in the functioning code, this text no longer shows up on the php page when the form is submitted. Any help for that?

bradgrafelman

Post a fresh copy of your code. Also, make sure display_errors is set to On (or check your error log, if you've got it configured) and error_reporting is set to E_ALL.

quasitonic

Ah - I found an errant bit of incomplete javascript code in my header from one of my previous attempts that I hadn't deleted. Totally fixed now. Thank you so much for your help!

bradgrafelman

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