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Help with dropdown menu integration with switch case


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Is the <select> inside a <form>? Has that form been submitted? Because that's the only way PHP will be able to do this.

If you want the text to appear when you change the option without submitting a form, you need Javascript...

To elaborate on requinix's point, JavaScript is client-side. That means it runs in the browser, so - for example - if the user clicks on something JavaScript can catch that action and do things to the elements currently on the loaded page without reloading that page in the browser. PHP on the other hand runs on the server, so the page needs to be refreshed so the data gets back to the server and can be acted upon. If you want to run a server-side process from the client, you'll need to use AJAX (today, the fetch() JavaScript function) to send the client-side information to the server for processing.

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