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PHP and handling dropdown list box


learningPHP1

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Hello everybody

 

whats the best way to do this:

 

Page: User entry page.

focus: Dropdown list box

 

- dropdown list box, populated from a database(works).

-information pull for the dropdown listbox: Projectid(eg: 1,2,3...) and project name (eg: computer deployment)

 

user makes the selection and clicks save.

page returns back with the prev. selection which is fine but its a numeric value or the projectid.

 

Need:

like to have the project name appear rather then the project id but at the same time I need the projectid to save with the information collected in the user form so i can make reference to the project name at a later date using projectid .

 

<form name="projectwalkthrough" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="POST">

<body>

 

 

Project name: <select name="projectid" >

  <option value="selectid"><?PHP if($ProjectID) {echo $ProjectID;} else {echo "Select Project ID";} ?></option>

 

<?PHP

        while($row=mysqli_fetch_array($ProjectIDResults))

        {  echo '<option value=" ' . $row['ci_id'] . ' ">' . $row['ci_projectname'] . '</option>';  }

  ?>

</select>

 

any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

 

thanks

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