Access values of a group of select boxes in php from post

Question

Hi, I'm new to PHP, and I can't figure this out.

I'm trying to figure out how to access the data of a group of select boxes I have defined in my HTML code. I tried grouping them as a class, but that doesn't seem to work... maybe I was doing it wrong.

This is the following HTML code.

<form action="" method="post">
<select class="foo">
 <option> 1.....100</option>
</select>
<select class="foo">
 <option> 1.... 500></option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit"/>
</form>

I essentially want to group all my select boxes and access all the values in my PHP code.

Thanks

Answer 1

Use the name attribute in your select tags. Then you can access those fields by name in the $_POST variable.

<form action="" method="post">
<select name="number_one">
   <option value='1'>1</option>
   <option value='2'>2</option>
   <option value='3'>3</option>
</select>
<select name="number_two">
   <option value='a'>1</option>
   <option value='b'>2</option>
   <option value='c'>3</option>
</select>
<input type="text" name="something"/>
<input type="hidden" name="hidden_value" value="hidden"/>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit"/>
</form>

In your PHP you can access these like so:

$number_one = $_POST['number_one'];
$number_two = $_POST['number_two'];
$something = $_POST['something'];
$hidden_value = $_POST['hidden_value'];