HTML Form and php

Let's say you have a table called person with these fields:

ID int
firstname varchar(64)
lastname varchar(64)

Do simply like this:

<select name="person">
<?
$res = mysql_query("select * from person order by lastname,firstname");
if($inf = mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
  do{
   echo "<option value=\"".$inf["ID"]."\">".$inf["firstname"]." ".$inf["lastname"]."</option>";
  } while($inf = mysql_fetch_array($res));
}
?>
</select>

After submission the ID of selected person is stored in variable $person.

thanks will try it out

It's working but I want it to store multiple values rather than a single value

I want it to store all values selected

OK. That's easy:

<select name="person[]" size="5" multiple>
<?
$res = mysql_query("select * from person order by lastname,firstname");
if($inf = mysql_fetch_array($res))
{
 do{
  echo "<option value=\"".$inf["ID"]."\">".$inf["firstname"]." ".$inf["lastname"]."</option>";
 } while($inf = mysql_fetch_array($res));
}
?>
</select>

After submission you have an array called $person. You could loop through this array to get all your options:

for($no=0;$no<count($person);$no++)
{
  echo $person[$no];
}


Note the change in <select> :

<select name="person[]" size="5" multiple>

Thanks Will give it a try.

I want a user to select a particular option and would want to make reference to the selected value. I would like to pass this value to another page for processing.

What should i write for

form action and method.

method should always be post. Action would be the page you want the page to be submitted to.

<form action="otherPage.html" method="post">

Sorry, I want it as a drop down box.
With mutiple values

I want a data-driven drop down box.

Drop-down box where you could select multiple values is not possible in HTML.

Batalf.

Sorry I want to select a single value from multiple values

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