Question

I have the following in the code :

$form['location'] = array(
    '#value' => '<select name="location">
                <option value="778">Location1 </option>
                <option value="779">Location2 </option>
                <option value="780">Location3 </option>
                <option value="781">Location4 </option>
                </select>',

 );

In the submit function how do I access the value that was selected in the select box?

$form_state['values']['location'] does not work 🙁

Answer 1

That’s not how you do it in Drupal. Read this before trying to create a form in Drupal

That’s how a select element should look like:

$form['feed'] = array(
      '#type' => 'select', 
      '#title' => t('Display of XML feed items'), 
      '#default_value' => variable_get('feed_item_length','teaser'),
      '#options' => array(
        'title' => t('Titles only'), 
        'teaser' => t('Titles plus teaser'), 
        'fulltext' => t('Full text'),
      ),
      '#description' => t('Global setting for the length of XML feed items that are output by default.'),
    );