RE: [PHP] Possibly more of an html question, but...

Try something like this: <select name="select_test[]" multiple> <option value="selection_1">Number 1 <option value="selection_2">Number 2 <option value="selection_3">Number 3 ... <option value="selection_n">Number n </select> HTML supports an array datatype(sort of). Jason > -----Original Message----- > From: Fredrik de Vibe [mailto:fredrik@devibe.net] > Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 3:29 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Possibly more of an html question, but... > > > ...I'll give it a go here and hope nobody strings me up. > > The html tag <select> has an option "multiple", meaning that you can > select more than one option. The <select> tag has the "name" attribute > and the enclosed <option> tags have the "value" attributes. > > I'll give a slight example describing my problem: > --- > <select name="select_test" multiple> > <option value="selection_1">Number 1 > <option value="selection_2">Number 2 > <option value="selection_3">Number 3 > ... > <option value="selection_n">Number n > </select> > --- > Here, you'll get a selection box where you can select as many options as > you'd like. That's html. > > The php (and as far as I can see without having tried it, also cgi) > related problem is that when I try to pick up these values in a variable > in a script, I only get the last value, as I can see, the following > happens in php: > --- > $selection_test = Number 1; > $selection_test = Number 2; > $selection_test = Number 3; > ... > $selection_test = Number n; > --- > meaning that $selection_test is over-written each time you read a new > value. I've also tried handling $selection_test as an array, but if I > understand this correctly, it isn't one. > > Surely there must be a solution to this as I've seen multiple selection > boxes being used, but whatever this solution is, it's bypassed me. Does > anybody know how to deal with this? > > > --Fredrik > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > _______________________________________________________ Site Design, Hosting, and E-Commerce at www.webpipe.net