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PHP Multiple selection display

Hi Experts.

I'm unsure about the coding required to make a php file display multiple selections, so far I'm only getting one.

Here is my code:

HTML

                             <select name="sport" multiple="multiple" size="4">
                             <option value="soccer">Soccer</option>
                             <option value="cricket">Cricket</option>
                             <option value="squash">Squash</option>
                             <option value="golf">Golf</option>
                             <option value="tennis">Tennis</option>
                             <option value="basketball">Basketball</option>
                             <option value="baseball">Baseball</option>
                           </select>

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PHP

<?php $sportstr = $_POST["sport"];?>
<strong>sport = </strong> <?php echo "$sportstr"; ?> <br />

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I want to be able to select 4 different options shown in the HTML and those to be displayed when I submit the form.

Thanks in advance.

Rick

Lukasz Chmielewski

You need to add name="sport[]"

take a look here:

<form action="#" method="post">
<select name="sport[]" multiple="multiple" size="4">
    <option value="soccer">Soccer</option>
    <option value="cricket">Cricket</option>
    <option value="squash">Squash</option>
    <option value="golf">Golf</option>
    <option value="tennis">Tennis</option>
    <option value="basketball">Basketball</option>
    <option value="baseball">Baseball</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" />

<?php 
    $sportstr = $_POST["sport"];
    print_r($_POST);
?>

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Dave Baldwin

Here's a demo page for you.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Multi</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>PHP Multi</h1>
<p>Select 4:</p>
<form action="" method="post">
<select name="sport[]" multiple="multiple" size="4">
<option value="soccer">Soccer</option>
<option value="cricket">Cricket</option>
<option value="squash">Squash</option>
<option value="golf">Golf</option>
<option value="tennis">Tennis</option>
<option value="basketball">Basketball</option>
<option value="baseball">Baseball</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
<?php 
//print_r($_POST);
if(isset($_POST["submit"])) {
if(isset($_POST["sport"])) {
$sportstr = $_POST["sport"];
echo "<strong>sports = </strong>";
foreach($sportstr as $value) {
	echo "$value&nbsp;";
	}
	}
else echo "No sports selected.";
echo "<br>";
} 
?> 
<a href="PHP-Multi.php">Again.</a>
</body>
</html>

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Ivan Kulchytskyi-Kostyk

<form action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="post">
<select name="sport[]" multiple="multiple" size="4">
         <option value="soccer">Soccer</option>
         <option value="cricket">Cricket</option>
         <option value="squash">Squash</option>
         <option value="golf">Golf</option>
         <option value="tennis">Tennis</option>
         <option value="basketball">Basketball</option>
         <option value="baseball">Baseball</option>
    </select>
<input type="submit" value="Send" />
</form>

<?php
	$sportstr=$_POST['sport'];
	if ($sportstr){
	 foreach ($sportstr as $s){echo 'You selected ',$s,'<br />';}
	}
?>

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Lukasz Chmielewski

Or - to be complete:

<form action="#" method="post">
<select name="sport[]" multiple="multiple" size="4">
    <option value="soccer">Soccer</option>
    <option value="cricket">Cricket</option>
    <option value="squash">Squash</option>
    <option value="golf">Golf</option>
    <option value="tennis">Tennis</option>
    <option value="basketball">Basketball</option>
    <option value="baseball">Baseball</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" />
<br /><br />

<?php 
    if(!empty($_POST)){
        $sportstr = $_POST['sport'];
        foreach($_POST['sport'] as $val)
            echo"<strong>sport = </strong>".$val."<br />";
    }
    
?>

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Ricky Nguyen

ASKER

Thanks for the fast reply. I've tried your code but I'm still getting some problems. I'm going to assume I did something wrong in the rest of the code.

This is the output that I get.

Array ( [uname] => Test [mail] => test [addrs] => 123test [gender] => male [sport] => squash [mlist] => true )
the following information was received from the user:

name = Test
email = test
addrs = 123test
gender = male
sport = squash
mlist = true

I'll post all my code below.

HTML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> 

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Prac 3 Task 1</title>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>PHP form demo</h1>
  <form id="userinfo" action="test.php" method="post">
  <p>Please fill in the following form</p>
  <p>Name  <input type="text" name="uname"/><br/>
     Email <input type="text" name="mail"/></p>
  
  <p>Address<br/>
  <textarea rows="5" cols="30" name="addrs"></textarea><br/>
  </p>
    
  <p>Your gender please:<br/>
  <input type="radio" name="gender" value="female"/> Female<br/>
  <input type="radio" name="gender" value="male" /> Male</p>
  <p>Your favourite sport: <select name="sport[]" multiple="multiple" size="4">
                             <option value="soccer">Soccer</option>
                             <option value="cricket">Cricket</option>
                             <option value="squash">Squash</option>
                             <option value="golf">Golf</option>
                             <option value="tennis">Tennis</option>
                             <option value="basketball">Basketball</option>
                             <option value="baseball">Baseball</option>
                           </select>
  </p>
  <p><input type="checkbox" name="mlist" value="true" />Please add me to the mailing list</p>
  <p><input type="submit" value="submit"/>&nbsp;
     <input type="reset"  value="reset"/></p>
  </form>
</body>
</html>

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PHP

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>PHP test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php $namestr = $_POST["uname"];
$emailstr = $_POST["mail"]; 
$addrsstr = $_POST["addrs"];
$genderstr = $_POST["gender"];
    $sportstr = $_POST["sport"];
    print_r($_POST);
$mliststr = $_POST["mlist"];?>
<p>the following information was received from the user:</p>
<p><strong>name = </strong> <?php echo "$namestr"; ?><br/>
<strong>email = </strong> <?php echo "$emailstr"; ?><br />
<strong>addrs = </strong> <?php echo "$addrsstr"; ?><br />
<strong>gender = </strong> <?php echo "$genderstr"; ?><br />
<strong>sport = </strong> <?php echo "$sportstr"; ?> <br />
<strong>mlist = </strong> <?php echo "$mliststr"; ?></p><br />

</body>
</html>

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Rick.

Lukasz Chmielewski

Try this as PHP file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>PHP test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php $namestr = $_POST["uname"];
$emailstr = $_POST["mail"]; 
$addrsstr = $_POST["addrs"];
$genderstr = $_POST["gender"];
    $sportstr = $_POST["sport"];
    print_r($_POST);
$mliststr = $_POST["mlist"];?>
<p>the following information was received from the user:</p>
<p><strong>name = </strong> <?php echo "$namestr"; ?><br/>
<strong>email = </strong> <?php echo "$emailstr"; ?><br />
<strong>addrs = </strong> <?php echo "$addrsstr"; ?><br />
<strong>gender = </strong> <?php echo "$genderstr"; ?><br />
<?php
        foreach($_POST['sport'] as $sportstr)
            echo"<strong>sport = </strong>".$sportstr."<br />";
?>
<strong>mlist = </strong> <?php echo "$mliststr"; ?></p><br />

</body>
</html>

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Lukasz Chmielewski

Sorry, line 22 - 23

foreach($sportstr as $val)
echo"<strong>sport = </strong>".$val."<br />";

Ivan Kulchytskyi-Kostyk

in PHP line:

replace line #13

$sportstr = implode(', ', $_POST["sport"]);

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delete line #14.

Ricky Nguyen

ASKER

I've tried both solutions.

I get the following for both:

Array ( [uname] => test [mail] => test [addrs] => test123 [gender] => male [sport] => squash [mlist] => true )
the following information was received from the user:

name = test
email = test
addrs = test123
gender = male
mlist = true

PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() on line 22

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