I have a form that includes some select inputs like this
<select class="motive" name="motive">
<option value="" disabled selected>Select a Number</option>
<option value="">One</option>
<option value="">Two</option>
<option value="">Three</option>
</select>
On my php form side I have this piece of code
$motive = $_POST['motive'];
In my received email I'm not getting the motive displayed, is showing as a blank space. Can someone tell me why?
thanks!
For each of your <option> tags, you must have a value attribute set.
<select class="motive" name="motive">
<option value="" disabled selected>Select a Number</option>
<option value="1">One</option>
<option value="2">Two</option>
<option value="2">Three</option>
</select>
If user has option One selected and submits the form, then in PHP you
$selected_motive = $_POST['motive']; // equals "1"
It's probably because <select> inputs are not allowed in emails. Most email clients will just remove them.
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I have a form like so:
<select name="employment">
<option disabled="" selected="">-- What is your employment status --</option>
<option value="employed">Employed</option>
<option value="self_employed">Self Employed</option>
</select>
In PHP I am running through each of the $_POST variables and then checking if they have a value. If not I then add that field to the array for an error message.
The issue is that if I leave the default 'disabled' message selected nothing is passed through a post value so theres nothing for me to validate.
If I print_r my $_POST variable then it contains no 'employment' field unless I select an option.
How can I solve this?
<select name="employment">
<option disabled selected>-- What is your employment status --</option>
<option value="employed">Employed</option>
<option value="self_employed">Self Employed</option>
</select>
disabled attribute
The disabled attribute is a boolean attribute.
When present, it specifies that an option should be disabled
A disabled option is unusable and un-clickable.
Syntax:
<select disabled>
Not
<select disabled="">
In case of XHTML, syntax differs like
<select disabled="disabled">
hidden attribute
So, If you want to validate it. Use hidden in option.
<select name="employment">
<option hidden>-- What is your employment status --</option>
<option value="employed">Employed</option>
<option value="self_employed">Self Employed</option>
</select>
When, nothing got selected, then it will output as -- What is your employment status --
<?php
echo $Employment=$_POST['employment'];
?>
Output: -- What is your employment status --
So, Now you can easily use your validation in dropdown
For more info, click disabled attribute - W3 Schools
Try this:
<select name="employment">
<option disabled="" selected="" value ="">-- What is your employment status --</option>
<option value="employed">Employed</option>
<option value="self_employed">Self Employed</option>
</select>
PHP:
if(empty($_POST['employment'])){
return false;
}else {
// I got value;
}
Posting the selected html option attribute via php..Here is my html code and I'm trying to select one option from the event-drop down menu, but really finding it hard to configure with php variable $event. Any help will be much appreciated.
HTML Code:
<div>
<h4>Event</h4>
<p class="cd-select icon">
<select class="budget">
<option value="0">Select Occasion</option>
<option value="1">alpha</option>
<option value ="2">Bravo</option>
<option value="3">Charlie</option>
<option value="4">Delta</option>
</select>
</p>
</div>
PHP version
$event = $_POST['selected'];
In PHP form fields are posted with their name. In your case you'd have to add the name attribute to the select.
<select class="budget" name="selected">
<option value="0">Select Occasion</option>
<option value="1">alpha</option>
<option value ="2">Bravo</option>
<option value="3">Charlie</option>
<option value="4">Delta</option>
</select>
i have a select list menu that i use in my email form:
<select name="orgSelect" class="orgSelect">
<option value="0">----Select product----</option>
<option value="1">Product 1</option>
<option value="2">Product 2</option>
<option value="3">Product 3</option>
</select>
But when the email form is sent its posts the value and I don't want him to get the value, but yes the item label in front "Product 1"..., the Value of the options is using ofr another thing, can someone tell me how to get the data "Product 1" or Product 2...
Either don't use the value= attribute at all, which will have the client send the name of the option instead (but you don't get the actual number (guessing this is ID) of the product).
Or, a better solution, query your database for the product ID before sending the email, and get the Product name from there.
you set like this
<select name="orgSelect" class="orgSelect">
<option value="0-0">----Select product----</option>
<option value="1|Product 1">Product 1</option>
<option value="2|Product 2">Product 2</option>
<option value="3|Product 3">Product 3</option>
</select>
and get post value like this
var arr=explode('|',$_post['orgSelect']);
var arrval=arr[0];
var arrname=arr[1]
I have following code in a html form
<select name="category" class="input" onchange="ShowTB(this,'suggest');">
<option value="0" selected="selected">
[choose yours]
</option>
<optgroup label="Item">
<option value="SubItem1"SubItem1</option>
<option value="SubItem2">SubItem2</option>
</optgroup>
<option value="Item2">Item2</option>
<optgroup label="Item3">
<option value="SubItem4"SubItem4</option>
<option value="SubItem5">SubItem5</option>
</optgroup>
<option value="Item4">Item4</option>
<option value="Item5">Item5</option>
<option value="Item6">Item6</option>
<option value="Item7">Item7</option>
</select>
in php i get the value of field selected with:
$category = $_POST['category'];
in this mode if i select in the form ie: SubItem1 , in php i get value SubItem1 but i want also get associated label ie: Item or if i select SubItem5 i get SubItem5 but i want also get associated label ie: Item3
How to ?
Indeed, you only get the value. If you need more, just encode whatever you want into the value, for example:
<option value="Item3.SubItem5">SubItem5</option>
Alternatively, you could use javascript to catch onChange events on the select field and update a hidden input field with the desired label.
you could make the values arrays e.g.
<option value="Item3[SubItem5]">SubItem5</option>
so then your $_POST['category'] should return an array
I have 8 select fields with different options in each and im trying to pass each selected value into a querystring but im not sure how this work.
<form method="post">
<fieldset>
<legend class="hidden">Choose your options</legend>
<ol>
<li><label>option 1</label>
<select>
<option value="">Select one..</option>
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
</select>
</li>
<li><label>option 2</label>
<select>
<option value="">Select one..</option>
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
</select>
</li>
<li><label>option 3</label>
<select>
<option value="">Select one..</option>
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
</select>
</li>
</ol>
</fieldset>
</form>
so ive got 8 of these and I want to select a value from each one and then press submit which will then bring up a best match from the values passed...
Read about Dealing with Forms.
You must give the form elements a name, e.g.:
<li><label>option 1</label>
<select name="option1">
<option value="">Select one..</option>
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
</select>
</li>
Then you can access the value via $_POST['option1'].
Note: As you specified POST as form method, the data is not sent via the URL to your PHP script, but is contained in the request body. If you want to have the data in the URL (as querystring) you have to change the method to GET.
I'm nut sure exactly what you're looking for, but if you put a name=".." attribute into your select tags, they'll end up into the querystring?
You are missing NAME argument from the SELECT TAG
Once you have this, options will be received by the php script in $_POST array.
So, for example:
<SELECT NAME="mySelect">
<OPTION VALUE="V1">Value 1</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="V2">Value 2</OPTION>
...
</SELECT>
You would read the value in your php script from $_POST['mySelect']
Also, keep in mind that you need to enter ACTION tag for your form, defining the php script that will execute once you send your form.
Each <select> needs to have a name, for example, the first one could be <select name="firstSelection">. When you click submit, the browser sends something like firstSelection=1&secondSelection=&thirdSelection=1.