Have you tried echoing out the value on the resulting page, i.e. the page that parses the form? echo $_POST['name']; What does that give you? I don't see anything that really jumps out at me with your code. -Brad
"Beauford.2002" wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sending this to both lists as I'm not sure where the problem is, but I > believe it is an issue with my HTML form. Here's the problem: > > I have a drop-down menu form on my webpage with employee names in it. When I > choose a name and click submit it gets passed to a php page which accesses a > mysql database and displays information about that employee. > > The problem is that the form is not sending the employee name to the php > page. If I insert the name in the php page manually, it works fine, so the > problem appears to be with the form. > > Can someone help me out here - a sample of my code is below. I'm not sure > how to explain this, but whatever gets sent to the PHP page has to be one > variable - i.e. if I choose John, then the variable that gets sent to the > PHP should have the value John, if I choose Mary, the value of the variable > should be Mary. Hope this makes sense. > > TIA > > <P><CENTER><FORM NAME="Employees"> > <SELECT NAME="name"> > <OPTION SELECTED VALUE=""></OPTION> > <OPTION VALUE="John"</OPTION>John > <OPTION VALUE="Mary"</OPTION>Mary > </SELECT> > <INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Submit"> > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
