Posted by Norman Peelman on 08/30/06 03:18

<kurrent@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1156886642.624061.318070@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> I am relatively new to PHP and just have a question regarding $_POST to
> get a value passed via a form to be included of the parameter of an
> array I am using:
>
> eg.
>
> <?
>
> $a array = ("1", "2", "3");
>
> echo "<form method=POST>
>
> <select name=b size=1>
> <option value=1>number1</option>
> <option value=2>number2</option>
> <option value=0>number3</option>
> </select>
>
> <input type=submit name=Submit>
>
>
> </form>";
>
> echo "$a[$b]";
>
>
> Since I have a global variables turned off, and would like to keep
> learning with them off, I am stumped on to get that value passed
>
>
> >From my understanding, I see that $_POST[b] would successfully retrive
> the value of the $b variable. So i've tried many variants on the syntax
> but no luck (e.g. "$a[$_POST[b]]) etc...
>
> any help is much appreciated :) thanks!
>

How about: echo "{$a[$_POST['b']]}";

Norm

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