How to get data from a form into PHP

[Ross Nicholson]

I have a group of select boxes generated from MySQL on a page and when the user hits the submit button how do I get the selected values into PHP so that I can process them into a query.

Help please????


Ross

[Kevin Yank]

Say your form contains the following select box:

<SELECT NAME="myselect" SIZE=1>
<OPTION VALUE=1>One
<OPTION VALUE=2>Two
<OPTION VALUE=3>Three
</SELECT>

When the form is submitted, the target PHP script (named in the ACTION attribute of the FORM tag) can access the selected value as $myselect.

If this doesn't work, ensure that register_globals is set to On in your php.ini file.


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