Question

I have small problem here. I have dropdown box in my form with 2 values; i.e Active and Inactive with Active being selected by default. I want to extract the selected value from the drop down box in PHP. I,m new to PHP and dont know how to do the same. Pls help. Thanks in advance

Answer 1

<select name="your_select">
    <option value="active" selected">Active</option>
    <option value="inactive"">Inactive</option>
</select>
...
<?php
$isActive = !empty($_POST['your_select']) ? $_POST['your_select'] : null;
?>

Note: The sample above is assuming your form method is post.