Submitting list values and retrieving them in PHP

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October 11th, 2004, 06:26 AM

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Submitting list values and retrieving them in PHP

I need to be able to submit a bunch of list values to PHP. See this page:

http://webdeveloper.earthweb.com/repository/javascripts/2002/02/75691/twoselect.html

Imagine that I want to send all the items in the left list to PHP. Any help would be gratefully appreciated!

Many thanks,
Matt

October 11th, 2004, 09:24 AM

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Code:

<select name="category_name" multiple size="5" style="width=150px" width="150px">

Since your select list allows a user to select more than 1 option, you'll need to rename it as an array:

Code:

<select name="category_name[]" ...

Notice the extra brackets in the name.

October 11th, 2004, 05:04 PM

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have you tried doing a print_r() on the $_POST and/or $_GET variables to see how the information is passed.

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