Question

This has been driving me crazy for the past few days. I’ve done something similar with check boxes and figured this would work but it didn’t. I have my selection box set up like this..

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($queryResult2))
{

echo "<table border=\"1\" \"black\" \"solid\">";
   echo "<tr><th>News item</th><td>";
   echo $row['heading'];
  echo "</td></tr>";
   echo "<tr><th>Order</th><td>";

 if( $row['id'] == 0)
 $id = "first";
 if( $row['id'] == 1)
 $id = "second";
 if( $row['id'] == 2)
 $id = "third";
 if( $row['id'] == 3)
 $id = "fourth";
 if( $row['id'] == 4)
 $id = "fith";
 if( $row['id'] == 5)
 $id = "sixth";
 if( $row['id'] == 6)
 $id = "seventh";
 if( $row['id'] == 7)
 $id = "eighth";
 if( $row['id'] == 8)
 $id = "ninth";
 if( $row['id'] == 9)
 $id = "tenth";

 echo "<select name='order[]'>
 <option value='$id'>". $id ."</option>
 <option name='first' value='1'>first</option>
 <option name='second' value='2'>second</option>
 <option name='order[]' value='3'>third</option>
 <option name='order[]' value='4'>fourth</option>
 <option name='order[]' value='5'>fith</option>
 <option name='order[]' value='6'>sixth</option>
 <option name='order[]' value='7'>seventh</option>
 <option name='order[]' value='8'>eighth</option>
 <option name='order[]' value='9'>ninth</option>
 <option name='order[]' value='10'>tenth</option>
 </select>";

Then it comes over to the next page like this when I do a print_r($_POST);

Array ( [order] => Array ( [0] => first [1] => second [2] => third [3] => fourth [4] => fith [5] => sixth [6] => seventh [7] => eighth [8] => ninth [9] => tenth ) )

How can I grab all of my data and put it into a variable so that I may update my database with this information?

Answer 1

I believe that you will want something similar to the following:

<form action="some_file.php" method="post">

 <select multiple="multiple" name="test[]">
  <option value="1">Test 1</option>
  <option value="2">Test 2</option>
  <option value="3">Test 3</option>
  <option value="4">Test 4</option>
  <option value="5">Test 5</option>
 </select>

 <input type="submit" />

</form>

You do not want name attributes on the option items. This might be messing it up for you.

What I think you should do:

• Add multiple="multiple" to the select tag
• Remove name attributes from the options in the select input