Question about dropdown menu...

[tomks77]

we can add dropdown menu in the html part like this: <select name"select1"><option>One</option></select> Ok, something like that, and we use the name "select1" in the php part like this:$_POST['select1']; but i found that i can not use the dropdown menu in the php part when i add it through the php.like this: <?phpprint "<select name='select1'>";print "<option>";print "One";print "</option>";print "</select>";?> because when i try to check what option the user chose using:$_POST['select1']i receive the error : undefined variable select1. if any one have an idea or a website that talk about this i'll be glad..I found some sites but itall use javascript to define what option the user click on.. is this mean there is no way to handle this issue using php??

[MarkT]

is this mean there is no way to handle this issue using php??

I don't really get what you're saying, but i assume;

<select name="drop"> <option value="1">One</option><option value="2">Two</option></select>

Then On your HTML Form Action document.For this demo; bob.phpcontents:

$option = $_POST['drop']

Then

echo '{$option}'

Edited May 29, 2013 by MarkT

[justsomeguy]

It doesn't matter whether PHP generates the HTML code or you type it by hand or whatever else, the browser doesn't care about that. It will work if the HTML is formed properly. Among other things, that means the select element needs to be inside a form element. echo '{$option}' That's going to print the text "{$option}". There's no reason to wrap it in quotes: echo $option;

[MarkT]

It doesn't matter whether PHP generates the HTML code or you type it by hand or whatever else, the browser doesn't care about that. It will work if the HTML is formed properly. Among other things, that means the select element needs to be inside a form element. echo '{$option}' That's going to print the text "{$option}". There's no reason to wrap it in quotes: echo $option;

I got most of it right