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Reading Datalist Selection in PHP


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<?php

// create_user.php

      $username = $_POST['username'];
        $password = $_POST['user_pass'];

        $ss_name = $_POST['ss_name'];
        echo "ss_name: ". $ss_name. "<br/>";


?>
<!-- registration_page.php -->

	<form method="post" action="create_user.php">

<datalist id = "oecs_systems">
   
<?php

		include_once 'db_connect.php'; /*establish databse connection and create mysql object called msql2 */

	
		if ($stmt = $mysqli_obj2->prepare("SELECT ss_name FROM ss_systems ORDER BY ss_name")){
        
            $stmt->execute();   // Execute the prepared query.
            $stmt->store_result();
 
            
                $stmt->bind_result($ss_name);
                while($stmt->fetch()){
                   	echo "<option value=\" $ss_name\">";
                }
			
        }
        else{
			echo "Error in preparing database statement to display Social Security Systems <br/>";
        }        
			


?>
</datalist>

        <label for = "ss_name"> Social Security Organization:</label>
        <input  id = "ss_name" list = "oecs_systems"/> <br>        
	
		<input name="Button" type="submit" value="Create user account" />
	</form>

?>

I create a data list in my source file registration_page.php. However when this page then invokes "create_user.php", the "ss_name" id used for the data list echoes nothing to the screen as if nothing was selected.

 

Why can't I read the datalist selection?

 

I have added the code s well

 

 

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Thank you so much. It worked by adding the "name" attribute. For some reason, I thought I read somewhere that the "id" attribute was the replacing the use of the "name" attribute so both are note needed, but in this case it really works!. Thanks so much.

 

Telly

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