Re: Dropdown menu

Thanks! I found the answer from: http://codewalkers.com/tutorials.php?show=12 "Daniel Clark" <dclark@nwlink.com> kirjoitti viestissä news:20040511105226.657A96F153@smtp1.pacifier.net... > 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