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Multi-select select list - process in php

If you have a form with a select element with multiple selections allowed, how do you process the selections in the php form processing program?

If the form element is called "choices", in the php program how to I separate out the individual choices made?

Thanks

Ray Paseur

Please post the form so we can show you a tested-and-working code example, thanks.

In the action script you can learn about what the form sends by using var_dump($_REQUEST)

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Dave Baldwin

A 'GET' version works as well. Save this one as 'multiselectget.php'.

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

<html>
<head>
<title>Multi-select select list in php</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Multi-select select list in php</h1>

<form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

<select name="sometext[]" id="sometext" multiple="multiple">
<option value="1">text1</option>
<option value="2">text2</option>
<option value="3">text3</option>
<option value="4">text4</option>
<option value="5">text5</option>
<option value="6">text6</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
<pre>

<?php 
if(isset($_REQUEST['submit'])) {
	echo "<b>GET</b><br>";
	var_dump($_GET);
	echo "<br><b>POST</b><br>";
	var_dump($_POST);
	echo "<br><b>REQUEST</b><br>";
	var_dump($_REQUEST);
	}
?>

</pre>
<br /> 
<a href="multiselectget.php">multiselectget.php</a>
</body>
</html>

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