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drop down boxes and forms

What do I need to change to get this code to work?

page1.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
 <form action="welcomeCar.php" method="post">
   <select>
    <option value="volvo" name"1">Volvo</option>
    <option value="saab" name="2">Saab</option>
    <option value="mercedes"name="3">Mercedes</option>
    <option value="audi" name="4">Audi</option>
   </select>

   <select>
    <option value="volvo" name="5">Volvo</option>
    <option value="saab" name="6">Saab</option>
    <option value="mercedes" name="7">Mercedes</option>
    <option value="audi" name="8">Audi</option>
   </select>
   <input type="submit" />
 </form>
</body>
</html>

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welcomeCar.php

Welcome <?php echo $_POST["1"]; ?>!<br />
Welcome <?php echo $_POST["2"]; ?>!<br />
Welcome <?php echo $_POST["3"]; ?>!<br />

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designatedinitializer

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Sorry for the unclear question. This is what I want to happen: A user selects an option from each drop down box. When they click submit, the choices are submitted to the welcomeCar.php page where the choices the user made are printed. the wecomeCar.php code should be:

Welcome <?php echo $_POST["1"]; ?>!<br />
Welcome <?php echo $_POST["2"]; ?>!<br />

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Atique Ansari

Please find the attached files.

Let me know if you need more help.

Page1.html

welcomeCar.php

Ray Paseur

This looks a lot like another question I've see this morning. Everybody must be doing the same exercise ;-)

Unnamed input tags are simply absent from the request. If you want to see the client input, you must give the <input> or <select> tags a name attribute. I'll show you a code example in a moment...

Ray Paseur

This is a typical design pattern for drop-down select lists. A NULL choice is offered and the client is asked to choose from a list. You can try running this on my server to see what happens. Please see:
http://www.laprbass.com/RAY_temp_newwebdesigner.php

<?php // RAY_temp_newwebdesigner.php
error_reporting(E_ALL);

if (!empty($_POST))
{
    // SHOW THE CONTENTS OF THE POST ARRAY
    echo "<pre>";
    var_dump($_POST);
    echo "</pre>";
    echo PHP_EOL;
}

// CREATE THE HTML USING HEREDOC NOTATION
$html = <<<HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html dir="ltr" lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta charset="iso-8859-1" />
<title>Form Demonstration</title>
</head>

<body>
 <form method="post">
   <select name="CAR_ONE">
    <option value="" selected>Please Choose A Car</option>
    <option value="volvo">Volvo</option>
    <option value="saab">Saab</option>
    <option value="mercedes">Mercedes</option>
    <option value="audi">Audi</option>
   </select>

   <select name="CAR_TWO">
    <option value="" selected>Please Choose Another Car</option>
    <option value="ford" >Ford</option>
    <option value="chevrolet" >Chevy</option>
    <option value="chrysler" >Chrysler</option>
    <option value="bmw" >Bimmer</option>
   </select>
   <input type="submit" />
 </form>
</body>
</html>
HTML;

echo $html;

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TechHelpr08210

Agreed, that sounds like a fine solution to me as well.