Howdy Folks,
I have a HTML form with a drop down box that has a key pair value behind it eg:
Key Value
1 Widget1
2 Widget2
3 Widget3
.....
What I want to do is pass both the key and the value to the next page so I can use the key to query the DB (the key is the pk from the DB) and the value for display purposes.
Currently I have two test scripts, the first creates the drop down and passes the parameters to the second which just displays them on a page:
<?php echo "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd\">"; echo "<html>"; echo "<head>"; echo "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=UTF-8\">"; echo "<title>Test Page</title>"; echo "</head>"; //Clear Form echo "<body>"; $array = array(); echo"<form action=\"test1.php\" method=\"post\">"; echo "Year"."<select name=Year>"; echo "<option>--Year--</option>"; echo"<option value=\"1\">2008</option>"; echo"<option value=\"2\">2009</option>"; echo"<option value=\"3\">2010</option>"; echo"<option value=\"4\">2011</option>"; echo"</select>"; echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"Year_Dim\" value=\"Year_Dim\">"; echo "<BR><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" /><br/>"; echo "</form>"; echo "</body>"; echo "</html>"; ?>
and
<?php
print_r($_POST);
echo "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd\">";
echo "<html>";
echo "<head>";
echo "<title>Test Page</title>";
echo "</head>";
echo "<BR>";
echo "The Report was run with the following parameters. <BR><BR>";
if (isset ($_POST[Year_Dim])) {
echo "Year: <B>".$_POST[Year]."</B><BR>";
};
echo "</body>";
echo "</html>";
?>
I have tried to pass both key and value but can't seem to get anywhere - its either one or the other.
Does anyone have any pointers or examples that would guide me in the right direction.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Tim.