Question

what is the best way to get the selected item from dropdown menu?

My dropdown menu is generated inside while loop if that matters 🙂

P.s. before you down-vote…I tried a couple of techniques I found on google and on this website.

Here is example of my dropdown menu:

<select id="select1">
<?php
$id = 0;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
    echo "<option value=$id>$row[0]</option>";
    $id++;
}
?>
</select>

Answer 1

Just give it a name:

<select id="select1" name="myselect">
<?php
$id = 0;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
    echo "<option value=\"$id\">{$row[0]}</option>";
    $id++;
}
?>
</select>

Then, when posted, you have the value available in $_REQUEST['myselect'].