Question

I have a form that has a field pulled from the database as a dropdown. I need to get the text selected in the dropdown but I don’t know in advance what the field ID will be.

This is basically just a form that has already been generated. I don’t need to pull anything from the database, it’s already on this page. All I need to do is get the form information and email it, no writing to the database.

I know how to do the _Request for the other fields based on the ID but I’m not sure how to do this one. The ID changes. It can be ID=1, ID-2, etc.

I need to do something like: _REQUEST form element where ID is LIKE “ID[*]” or something similar.

Any suggestions or links to tutorials?

Here are a couple samples of what the dropdown renders on the page:

<div class="wrapperAttribsOptions">
<h4 class="optionName back"><label class="attribsSelect" for="attrib-  1">Model</label></h4>
<div class="back">
<select name="id[1]" id="attrib-1">
    <option value="45">VC3-4C</option>
    <option value="1">VC3-4PG</option>
    <option value="3">VC3-4SG</option>

<div class="wrapperAttribsOptions">
<h4 class="optionName back"><label class="attribsSelect" for="attrib-14">SPK   Model</label></h4>

<div class="back">
<select name="id[14]" id="attrib-14">
    <option value="43">SPK-4</option>
    <option value="44">SPK-8</option>
</select>

TIA

Answer 1

The brackets [] mean that PHP will create an array variable with the posted values. So you should have $_REQUEST['id'] as an array. There should be a value keyed by the number in the form ($_REQUEST['id'][1] in your first example, $_REQUEST['id'][14] in your second).

If there will just be one value (you don’t say what you’re trying to do with these values) then you can just shift it off the array.

$value = array_shift($_REQUEST['id']);

If there will be multiple values, you can loop through them:

foreach($_REQUEST['id'] as $number => $value) { ... }