Re: Dropdown menu

Hi Bill. Put something like: <FORM ACTION="read_form.php" METHOD="post"> ##your form selections here## </FORM> Then on your read_form.php page: $what_they_selected = $_POST['name1'] >>A question about forms and PHP. I have a dropdown list which gets the lines >>in the list from DB. Like this(col1 is used only for sorting the data): >> >>echo "<td>choose one:</td><td><SELECT >>NAME=\"name1\">"; >>$sql="SELECT col1, col2 FROM table_04 ORDER BY col1"; >>$result=mysql_query($sql); >>$num = mysql_num_rows($result); >>$counter = 1; >>while ($num >= $counter) { >>$row = mysql_fetch_array($result); >>$col2 = $row["col2"]; >>echo "<option value=\"name\">$col2</option>"; >>$counter++; >>} >> >>This obviously leaves the value of $col2 to what ever is in the last row in >>database. How do I set the script to change the value when user selects >>another name from the list? I need to do more stuff based on the users >>selection. How do I get the selection from the list to a variable? I haven't >>really done forms and PHP before ;-) >> >>Thanks >>Bill