Question

I am new to PHP so bear with me. I have some code like this –

echo ('<select name="fullname">');
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($dorequest)) {
  echo ('<option name="' . $row['ID'] . '">' . $row['firstname'] . " " . $row['lastname'] .  '</option>'); 
}
echo('</select>');

Which works fine. When I submit the form I want to get the ID of the selected option ( $row[‘ID’] ). I can only get the content of the select box. Any ideas how I might do this?

Answer 1

Use a value attribute instead of name:

echo ('<option name="' . $row['ID'] . '">' . $row['firstname'] ...
                ^-------HERE, use "value" instead of "name"

As the name for the sending variable is already set in your select <select name="fullname"> what you need to specify in the <option> is the value you want to send.