Posted by obiron on 12/07/06 11:35

Except that it is the form bit we need :)

you have generated the HTML for the <FORM method=\"post\"
action=\"somepage.php\"> and for the <SELECT value=\"recordID\">....

You now use the object / array to generate the option bit of the code.

$HTML = "<OPTION value=\"$result['value']\"> $result['Fname']
$result['Sname']</OPTION>";

PRINT $HTML;

and then end the </SELECT >

You will now see in the HTML

<OPTION value="17">Fred Smith</OPTION>
<OPTION value="18">John Jones</OPTION>
<OPTION value="19">Peter Parker</OPTION>

Basically whatever you put between <OPTION> and </OPTION> will show in
the drop down list but the value is what gets passed back to the server
as part of the form submit and will end up in $_POST['recordID']

Hope this helps

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