Question

I have a drop down menu generated like this:

  <select multiple="multiple" name="application_occupation" id="application_occupation" value="{$fields.Occupation}" class="application_occupation">
              <option selected="selected" value="">All categories</option>
                 {foreach from=$mainArray key=topkey item=topitem}
                 {foreach from=$topitem key=key item=item}
                 <option value="{$item.categoryid}">{$item.name}</option>
            {/foreach}
            {/foreach}<!-- Master -->
      </select>

This generates a dropdown menu:

In my php code I have $fields['Occupation'] = CMS::getFormData('Occupation', false);

This is returning blank why?

Answer 1

Try use this code

$fields['Occupation'] = CMS::getFormData('application_occupation[]', false);

If you want use multiple select – name must be this application_occupation[]