[SOLVED] Basic Question about linking dropdown lists to a new page

[Newcomer]

I'm fairly new to PHP, and I'm just trying to do something easy. I'm trying to link the results of what some chooses on one page in a drop down list, to a page where I'm going to echo the results. I understand how to do it with input fields, but this is confusing me.

[revraz]

This is more HTML, but use a FORM, use POST as the method, use your 2nd page as your action, then you can use $_POST to get the select names you used.

[GingerRobot]

When you say echo the results, what do you mean? Are you querying a database with a particular value, or are we talking just how to show which option the user selected?

 

If it's the latter, then it'd be something like:

 

<?php
echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
echo 'You selected option: '.$_POST['select'];
}
?>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="POST">
<select name="select">
<option value="one">one</select>
<option value="two">two</select>
<option value="three">three</select>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

 

If you're quering a database, its pretty much the same - exept you need to add in the step of quering the database with the value from the drop down, and get the results from the database.