Re: how to create multiple selects within php
| From: | John Nichel | Date: | Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:37:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: how to create multiple selects within php | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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bruce wrote:
john.. thanks for the response... but i don't need a multiple select.. what i need are multiple select/menu lists...Ahhhh....then just do your select like this... <select name="foo"> <option /> <option val="1" />fff <option val="2" />aaa So on and so forth. Leave the first <option> empty, and on the resulting page, if the user didn't select anything, $_POST['foo'] will not have a value. if ( $_POST['foo'] == "" ) { //user didn't select anything } -- John C. Nichel ÜberGeek KegWorks.com 716.856.9675 john@kegworks.comlist1 list2 list3....however, the issue i'm really facing is how to detect that a user has actually selected an item in a given list, as opposed to the app simply returning the 1st item of a list, as the default if the list is not selected.... this is consistent with what the rfc/spec states the behavior should be...