Setting form variable outside form

[sazzie]

Hi guys,

I have a form defined below:

[code]
<form method="post" action=" <?php echo $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"];?> ">
<select name="month" >
<?php
$months = Array("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June",
"July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December");
for( $x = 1; $x <= count($months); $x++ )
{
      echo "<option value=\"$x\"";
      if( $x == $month )
      {
echo "selected";
$m = $month;
        }
        echo ">".$months[$x-1]."</option>";
}
?>
</select>
</form>
[/code]

All I want to do is to be able to use a seperate hyperlinked image on my webpage to scroll through the months in my array. So in addition to being able to select any month in my dropdown list, I want an arrow to scroll through one month per click. ???
I figure that means begin able to set the value of month, possibly as a post variable(don't know if its even possible), outside of the form and refreshing the page.

I have never done anything like this before. Can anyone offer and insight into this?

Thanks  ;)

[Fallen_angel]

you could use get instead of post

then at the top of the page have  something like

[code]$id = $_GET['id'];[/code]

then the variable is set in the url , for example for january you could have

www.yoursite.com/page.php?id=january

hope that helps

[sazzie]

I am sure i'm missing something but I don't see how using get instead of post will help influence the value of my drop down list.

I need a way to change the value of month without using the list. This is so I can scroll through my months as well as select from the list.