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Just curious - why does the number of the selection matter? &nbsp;I cannot think of any design pattern that would work that way. &nbsp;It's potentially very brittle - what if the number or order of the countries changed? &nbsp;If you have code that depends on a numeric position in an array from an external source (like $_POST) you may be accepting too much risk. &nbsp;Just a thought.<br />
<a href="http://php.net/manual/en/tutorial.forms.php" rel="ugc">http://php.net/manual/en/tutorial.forms.php</a>
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Just curious - why does the number of the selection matter?  I cannot think of any design pattern that would work that way.  It's potentially very brittle - what if the number or order of the countries changed?  If you have code that depends on a numeric position in an array from an external source (like $_POST) you may be accepting too much risk.  Just a thought.
http://php.net/manual/en/tutorial.forms.php [http://php.net/manual/en/tutorial.forms.php]

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fishboy2000sd,<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp;Worked like a charm; thank you.<br />
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Al
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fishboy2000sd,

   Worked like a charm; thank you.

Al

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Hi All,<br />
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I have a dropdown box on a form that lists countries:<br />
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<pre><code id="code-8227933">$lines =file('./Countries.csv');
foreach($lines as $data) {
   list($countriesAr[],$Continent[],$Notify[]) = explode(',',$data);
}

for($i=0;$i&lt;count($countriesAr);$i++) {
     echo &quot;&lt;option value='&quot;.$countriesAr[$i].&quot;'&quot;;
     if($_POST['country'] ==  $countriesAr[$i]) 
          echo &quot;SELECTED&quot;;
     echo &quot;&gt;&quot;.$countriesAr[$i].&quot;&lt;/option&gt;\n&quot;;
}</code></pre>
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My question is, when the form get submitted, I want to know which country was chosen, i.e. the first on the list, or 12th, etc. I need to know the element number. How do I get that value?<br />
<br />
Al
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Hi All,

I have a dropdown box on a form that lists countries:

 

My question is, when the form get submitted, I want to know which country was chosen, i.e. the first on the list, or 12th, etc. I need to know the element number. How do I get that value?

Al

Determine selected element number

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