Re: Using SELECT and MULTIPLE in a form

Put empty square brackets (NAME='in_task_descr[]') after the name of your select element. Then all the slections will be in an array called... $_POST['in_task_descr'] or $_GET['in_task_descr'] Depending on your form method. James Kaufman wrote:

I am displaying a form using values obtained from a database query. One of the elements contains about 20 different values. I want the use to be able to select multiple values before pressing submit. This seems to work, but when my php script is called, all I see is the last data value assigned to the variable. I could use a pointer. Here is a code snippet:

      echo "<TR>\n";
      echo "  <TD>Task Description</TD>\n";
      echo "  <TD><SELECT NAME='in_task_descr' MULTIPLE SIZE=4>\n";
      for ($j = 0; $j < $tskcount; $j++) {
        echo "<OPTION VALUE=\"$taskdescr[$j]\">$taskdescr[$j]</OPTION>\n";
      }
      echo "  </SELECT>\n";
      echo "  </TD>\n";
      echo "</TR>\n\n";

The above code adds a list to the form and the user can highlight more than one entry. How do I access the data after the user presses submit?

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