Mulitple items from drop down list

[UNHAPPY@HR]

I'm using a drop down list for users to select colors. they can select multiple colors. However, only one color shows up in the email.

I can create an array by setting the item on the page to

<select name="color1[]" size="3" multiple="MULTIPLE">

adding the [] in there creates the array, but how do i call the array back up correctly in the server side php?

[UNHAPPY@HR]

anyone??? Anyone???

[Silmaril8n]

I don't quite understand what is it that you are doing but I've never seen "Select" box HTML written that way.

[UNHAPPY@HR]

well, whenever you created a drop down list, that's how it's done. i figured it out. created an array..blah blah blah, i have a fabulous system now.

[Silmaril8n]

Well if you were doing it to standards this is what a select form looks like:

<select title="Please choose your favorite town" name="ddlTown" id="ddlTown">
<option value="">Please Select ... </option>
<option value="Swindon">Swindon</option>
<option value="London">London</option>
<option value="Burkino Faso">Burkino Faso</option>
</select>

But if you got everything working the way you need then righton

[UNHAPPY@HR]

welli it wasn't the form that was the problem, it was the PHP on the backside that was the problem. I had to make my own formmailer php from scratch pretty much.

<select name="color2[]" size="3" multiple="MULTIPLE">
<option selected="selected">pearl pink</option>
<option>red</option>
<option>blue</option>
<option>green</option>
<option>purple</option>

That's the form part

then this is how I got it to break down in PHP to actually show the multiple results instead of just the last one picked.

foreach($color2 as $stuff => $value)
{ $found=0; for($i=0;$i<count($def);$i++)
{
if($stuff==$def[$i])
{ $found=1;
}
}
if(!$found==1)
{ $message.=$stuff." : ".$value."\n";
}
}


all in all...I had to read up on PHP syntax to figure it out. I knew that it had to be an array, and handling arrays is a snap, but you gotta know the syntax.

[Silmaril8n]

Nice - I knew that I didn't understand what was up. I get it now... nice solution too BTW

[UNHAPPY@HR]

yeah, and only took me 13 hours straight to finally figure it out. also that usage of array will work if you use the HTTP_POST command, but instead of one item, it arrays out every part of your form for you. so instead of color2 you use $HTTP_POST_VARS. which makes a form awesomely handy, because you don't have to identify every part of the form, it automatically gets it for you. I have slowly fallen in love with PHP.