Sending Multiple ListBox Selection to PHP
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Hi,
How do I write the code in PHP to collect the multiple selected data from a listbox in HTML? Here is my code for the listbox:
<select name="select" size="1" multiple>
<option value="first">first</option>
<option value="second">second</option>
<option value="third">third</option>
<option value="fourth">fourth</option>
<option value="fifth">fifth</option>
</select>
Now, the PHP info is going to an email. All other fields in my HTML form end up in the email except the listbox. How do I write the code in PHP?
Thanks!
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You need to set an "id" for each list item, and this id needs to be unique for each one. Hence, your code would become:
<select name="select" size="1" multiple>
<option id="first" value="first">first</option>
<option id="second" value="second">second</option>
<option id="third" value="third">third</option>
<option id="fourth" value="fourth">fourth</option>
<option id="fifth" value="fifth">fifth</option>
</select>
Then, to select that data, you simply use $POST, thus:
$first = $POST["first"];
$second = $POST["second"];
and so forth...
Hope that helps,
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Hi, thanks for your quick reply. I added the PHP code to my PHP file, but I got this error:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected '\"', expecting TSTRING or TVARIABLE or TNUMSTRING in accmail2.php on line 9
Here is my exact HTML code:
<select name="select" size="5" multiple>
<option id="SINGLE1" value="SINGLE1">SINGLE 1</option>
<option id="SINGLE2" value="SINGLE2">SINGLE 2</option>
<option id="SINGLE3" value="SINGLE3">SINGLE 3</option>
<option id="DOUBLE1" value="DOUBLE1">DOUBLE 1</option>
<option id="DOUBLE2" value="DOUBLE2">DOUBLE 2</option>
<option id="DOUBLE3" value="DOUBLE3">DOUBLE 3</option>
<option id="DOUBLE4" value="DOUBLE4">DOUBLE 4</option>
<option id="DOUBLE5" value="DOUBLE5">DOUBLE 5</option>
<option id="TRIPLE1" value="TRIPLE1">TRIPLE 1</option>
<option id="TRIPLE2" value="TRIPLE2">TRIPLE 2</option>
<option id="TRIPLE3" value="TRIPLE3">TRIPLE 3</option>
<option id="MULTIPLE1" value="MULTIPLE1">MULTIPLE 1</option>
<option id="MULTIPLE2" value="MULTIPLE2">MULTIPLE 2</option>
</select>
And here is my exact PHP code:
Apartment:
$SINGLE1 = $POST["SINGLE1"];
$SINGLE2 = $POST["SINGLE2"];
$SINGLE3 = $POST["SINGLE3"];
$DOUBLE1 = $POST["DOUBLE1"];
$DOUBLE2 = $POST["DOUBLE2"];
$DOUBLE3 = $POST["DOUBLE3"];
$DOUBLE4 = $POST["DOUBLE4"];
$DOUBLE5 = $POST["DOUBLE5"];
$TRIPLE1 = $POST["TRIPLE1"];
$TRIPLE2 = $POST["TRIPLE2"];
$TRIPLE3 = $POST["TRIPLE3"];
$MULTIPLE1 = $POST["MULTIPLE1"];
$MULTIPLE2 = $POST["MULTIPLE2"];\n\n
What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
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Something you should note is that you can't any longer just put "multiple" in your tag, as that's invalid XHTML - all attributes and properties must be correctly qualified.
Therefore you have to do this: multiple="multiple"
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Sorry, I think what I told you before was wrong. You need to add an "id" tag to the form, not to each individual entry. Then, when you post the form, you use $POST["FormName"] to get that information back. So, using your code (modified slightly though):
<form id="MyForm" name="MyForm" method="post" action="accmail2.php">
<label>Please select one of the following options:</label>
<select name="select" size="5" multiple="multiple">
<option value="SINGLE1">SINGLE 1</option>
<option value="SINGLE2">SINGLE 2</option>
<option value="SINGLE3">SINGLE 3</option>
<option value="DOUBLE1">DOUBLE 1</option>
<option value="DOUBLE2">DOUBLE 2</option>
<option value="DOUBLE3">DOUBLE 3</option>
<option value="DOUBLE4">DOUBLE 4</option>
<option value="DOUBLE5">DOUBLE 5</option>
<option value="TRIPLE1">TRIPLE 1</option>
<option value="TRIPLE2">TRIPLE 2</option>
<option value="TRIPLE3">TRIPLE 3</option>
<option value="MULTIPLE1">MULTIPLE 1</option>
<option value="MULTIPLE2">MULTIPLE 2</option>
</select>
If the user selects, for example "Double 5", then setting$MyFormListVariable = $POST["MyForm"];
should set $MyFormListVariable to "Double5"
You can of course then go on to use value checking:If $MyFormListVariable == "DOUBLE5" THEN
type of thing
{ ...
} ELSE {
}
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You can find solution here,
http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-4012.html
all the best !
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hello people,
why not used [ ] in your HTML:
HTML :
<body> <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action=""> <select name="select[]" size="10" multiple="multiple" id="select[]"> <option value="1">2313123</option> <option value="2">53534534</option> <option value="3">523523523</option> <option value="4">44234234</option> </select> <input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Submit" /> </form> </body> </html>PHP :
<?php if (isset($_POST['select'])) { $az = $_POST['select']; foreach ($az as $a) { echo $a; } } ?>
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