At 04:52 09.02.2003, CF High said:
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>In this test form when I submit and insert into my db, only the last select
>field get entered; i.e. in this case the day value of 25.
>
><form name="form1" method="post" action="">
>
>Year
><select name="date" onSelect="return check_submit()">
> <option selected value=2002>2002</option>
></select>
>
>Month
><select name="date">
> <option selected value=12>12</option>
></select>
>
>Day
><select name="date">
> <option selected value=25>25</option>
></select>
>
><input type="submit" name="textfield">
>
></form>
>
>Why does this happen? In Cold Fusion I'm able to refer to the three selects
>as #date# and it returns 20021225 as expected.
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I don't know much about CF, but in plain HTML as you show here you have 3
different form input (select) fields sharing the same name. Thus the
browser will transmit only one of the three input (select) fields upon
submit (it is undefined which field will be sent, but most browsers will
transmit the last value).
Maybe CF fiddles around with the element names, PHP doesn't. You could e.g.
format the 3 elements to transmit an array, something like this:
<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
Year
<select name="date[Y]" onSelect="return check_submit()">
<option selected value=2002>2002</option>
</select>
Month
<select name="date[M]">
<option selected value=12>12</option>
</select>
Day
<select name="date[D]">
<option selected value=25>25</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="textfield">
</form>
In your receiving script you would have an associative array named "date"
in the $_REQUEST structure:
$date_received = $_REQUEST['date'];
$year = $date_received['Y'];
$month = $date_received['M'];
$day = $date_received['D'];
HTH,
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