Question

Here’s my situation, I have 2 pages, one for selecting a value and one for editing database related things which are associated to that value.

Right now, I have no knowledge ( and have researched a fair bit ) on how to save the value selected from the drop down list into a variable from PHP.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Its two step:
First html:

<form action='databasethings.php' method=post>
<select name="myvalue">
  <option value="value1">Value 1</option>
  <option value="value2">Value 2</option>
  <option value="value3">Value 3</option>
</select>
<input type=submit>
</form>

Its for sending the value to databasethings.php script.(

Then in databasethings.php:

$myvalue=$_POST['myvalue'];
//do something with myvalue

This will catch value1, 2 or 3 from html into $myvalue in php