Having a problem get the selected item from a drop down menu

[houdini_tx]

I have been looking at this for days now.

 

I have a drop down menu that get it's values from an sql database That works but now I want to get the item and pass it to another query that's where I get lost or I may have been lost from the start and got lucky.

 

Here is the code I have

<form action=""  method="post" name="test"></form>

      <select name="flt_game" id="flt_game" onChange="document.test.submit();">

<?php

$sql2 = "SELECT Pilot_Number, Pilot_Name FROM Logger_pilots  ORDER BY Pilot_Number";
        $result2 = $db->
sql_query($sql2);
            while ($row = $db->sql_fetchrow($result2)) {
            $pilotid = $row[Pilot_Number];
            $pilot1 = $row[Pilot_Name];
            if ($pilotid == $pilot1) {
            $sel = "selected ";

        }
            echo "<option $sel value=\"$pilot1\">$pilot1</option>






\n";
        $sel = "";


    }

    


?>
</select>
</form>
<?php
echo "You selected $sel ";
echo "<br><br>";
echo "<b>A/A Kill Average By Aircraft `flt_game`</b><br><br></center>";

   $a = 1;


       $sql5 = "SELECT Pilot_Name AS pilot , Aircraft AS aircraft1 ,  round((SUM(Kills) / SUM(Killed))*1,2) AS hrs FROM logger_stats WHERE Pilot_Name = '$pilot1' GROUP BY Pilot_Name, Aircraft ORDER BY hrs DESC LIMIT 0,100";

$result5=sql_query($sql5, $db);
  while(list($pilot, $aircraft1, $hrs) = sql_fetch_row($result5, $db)) {

          echo "<font color=\"#CC9900\" >$a:  $aircraft1  </font><em>($hrs  Kills)</em><br>";
    $a++;
  }

 

Thanks For the Help

 

Mike

[radox]

change:

echo "You selected $sel ";

 

to:

echo "You selected $pilot1";