Re: PHP and Form Values
| From: | David Robley | Date: | Fri, 27 Oct 2000 05:40:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: PHP and Form Values | ||
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On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Kyle Mathews wrote:
> Hello:
> How do you reference form select values in PHP.
> Similar to how JavaScript handles form values.
> Ex. document.formname.textname.value
>
> I imagine it is something similar to JavaScript, but I need it for select
> boxes.
>
> Thanks,
> Kyle
The name assigned in the SELECT tag is the variable name in PHP - preceded
by a $ sign of course. So if you do
<SELECT NAME="choice">blah</SELECT>
you can reference the selected value by $choice in the script called by the
form's action.
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