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Posted by Blockhead on 01/26/06 21:35
If I am reading your problem correctly, then it will be very easy for
you to succeed. If you are able to successfully INSERT into your DB
when using a regular text field, then you can also do it using a menu
or <select> field. PHP doesnt care what type of html field is in the
form, only the name of the field, which becomes the name of the "POST"
or "GET" variable containing the value of the field.
A common mistake however is that when creating a menu, most people
forget to actually assign a value to each option, so even though
various menu choices appear to the user, when they click submit, a NULL
or empty value is submitted with the form.
This will look right on the screen but not not work properly:
<select name="menu1">
<option>item 1</option>
<option>item 2</option>
<option>item 3</option>
</select>
this is how it needs to be:
<select name="menu1">
<option value ="item 1">item 1</option>
<option value ="item 2">item 2</option>
<option value ="item 3">item 3</option>
</select>
then on your submission page, if the form was submitted via POST, you
would just grab the value in the same way that you grabbed a regular
text field
$sMenu1 = $_POST["menu1"];
if that isnt your problem, perhaps you could post your code?
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