RE: [PHP] populate form input option dropdown box from existingdata

Ack, yes - my bad. Missed the select name square brackets when I sent my
example.

And yeah, the only real difference between a multiple select and checkbox is
which works best with the UI (and, more often than not, how confused the
concept of multiple selects makes your end-user)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tedd [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 16 June 2009 19:05
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PHP] populate form input option dropdown box from
> existingdata
> 
> At 10:42 AM -0500 6/16/09, Shawn McKenzie wrote:
> >He has a multiple select, so the select has to be an array or you just
> >get one value even if more than one was selected (you just get the last
> >one).
> 
> Okay, it's not that much different than using check-boxes -- here's
> the solution for that:
> 
> http://www.webbytedd.com/bbb/check-box-form/index.php
> 
> and here's the select solution:
> 
> http://www.webbytedd.com/bbb/select-box-form/index.php
> 
> The point is to use name="option[]" (i.e., name the array) and allow
> the browser to populate the POST array. Then on the php side of
> things, simply pull out the data from the POST array via the array's
> name.
> 
> You can see how this is done via the above links.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> tedd
> 
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