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Asked: 2026-05-29T06:19:29+00:00

I’ve been looking around on SO and I don’t -think- this is something that’s

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I’ve been looking around on SO and I don’t -think- this is something that’s up here, either that or it’s something I’ve missed. If so, please point me there and I’ll simply mark this question as answered.

I have a completely working PHP form where my users input information into input boxes and there’s a button at the bottom that submits the information to the MySQL database, so that part works perfectly. What I’m trying to do now is this: have 2 drop down menu’s, each one with a static list of choices and I’d like those choices to also get sent to the database.

For instance, currently in my form I have First Name (frame) and Last Name (lname) that the user can input and then if I query the database it spits out First Name and Last Name perfectly. So now I’d like to add to my form a drop down box where the user can pick, for example, Boy or Girl, and then after doing that click the submit button that’s already there (I don’t want the drop-down to submit the data, and I don’t want the drop-down to be populated from the database.)

I’m guessing I need to use Javascript for this part? But I really don’t know.

Any advice would be appreciated.

    <html>
    <head>
    <title>MyForm</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <form id="form" name="form" action="" method="post">
        <Label>First Name/Organization</label>
        <input type="text" name="firstname" value="<?php echo $firstname; ?>"/>
        <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Add entry">
    </form>
    </body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    So, as part of the same form, you simply treat it just like the input boxes. Here’s an example:

    If the dropdown is named: 

    <select name="gender">
    <option value="boy">Boy</option>
    <option value="girl">Girl</option>
</select>

    Then in your php, you would simply get the value for gender: 

    $gender = $_POST["gender"];

    And add to your SQL statement where you are saving the first/last name the additional field and value for gender.

    Of course, you would have to first modify the table to have the column for gender….

    Hope that helps!

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