Question

As the title says how am i able to perform that this is what i got:

This is the container :

   <select name="entrylevel">
   <options> val </option>

And this is how i

<?php $lvl=$_POST['entrylevel']; ?>
<input type="text" readonly="readonly"  name="level" value="$lvl">

Currently its just spatting out $lvl at my text element. Would appreciate any help what I’m doing wrong.

Answer 1

First, it your markup is wrong. You should use <option> not <options>. Next, you shall add value attribute like this <option value="val">any text</option>, so it all should look like this:

<select name="entrylevel">
<option value="val"> val </option>

and the code

<?php $lvl=$_POST['entrylevel']; ?>
<input type="text" readonly="readonly"  name="level" value="<?php echo $lvl; ?>">

or in a bit more clean and corrected fashion:

<?php
$lvl = $_POST['entrylevel'];
printf('<input type="text" readonly="readonly" name="level" value="%s">',
       htmlspecialchars($lvl));
?>

BTW: type="text" is default value if not specified, so it could be skipped but keeping it is not a bug anyway.