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Ah, I have just managed to decode what you are actually asking - as the question was quite unclear.

By first option, you mean the first block of HTML (which has been repeated, with a different name/id later in the page), and not the first <option> tag.

I've actually written a test program though, with and without the trailing /, and with default options (like <option selected="selected" value="4">AZ</option>), and I still can't get it to only return the choice from the first select tag. When I print_r($_POST), they return separate IDs.

Therefore, I believe your problem may lay elsewhere.

How do I get all the results from a select multiple HTML tag?

<select name="var[]" multiple="yes">
.....
</select>

Alister Bulman 2009-11-04 22:17:19

please dont hijack my question

Eric 2009-11-04 22:20:40

Hijack? What do you mean?

Darryl Hein 2009-11-04 22:23:43

Answer 2

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If the trailing / on the first select fixes it, do that in the short term until you can figure out what the heck is going on. Focus on solving the mystery after you aren't stuck. Also, fur a multiselect, I believe your name attribute should have [] at the end to indicate it will be holding an array of values i.e. name="Mail_State[]"

Zak 2009-11-04 22:18:08

i had not noticed that i had a / in the opening tag, i removed it and the one that works still works

Eric 2009-11-04 22:22:04

Answer 3

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A few things:

Your first selects includes a / at the end of the opening tag. This will effect how the data is submitted.
Can you post the final HTML of the page (the output of the PHP). What you have there isn't much help as we don't know what the options are that are in the select. Also include the form table.
Check for any other fields with the same name.
Try doing print_r($_REQUEST) at the top of the page you are submitting to to see what the values are. (It's possible the class you are using doesn't support multiples as well.)

Darryl Hein 2009-11-04 22:21:58

Answer 4

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I did not full understood the error, but seems like you are using CodeIgniter, why not utilise its Form Helper that may make your code easier and perhaps solve the problem as well.

Try this in your controller:

$Home_State = $this->input->post('Home_State');
$Mail_State = $this->input->post('Mail_State');

And in your view:

echo form_dropdown('Home_state', $states, $Home_State);
echo form_dropdown('Mail_State', $states, $Mail_State);

rockacola 2009-11-04 22:34:04

Answer 5

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Could there be other form inputs that also have the same name in the form? It happens to me sometimes. I forget that I haven't changed the other form names after copy and pasting multiple form inputs.

Thorpe Obazee 2009-11-05 00:54:15

Answer 6

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Is it possible that your other dropdowns are declared outside of the form?

espais 2009-11-05 10:31:03

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