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Show activity on this post. If you want PHP to treat $_GET['select2'] as an array of options just add square brackets to the name of the select element like this: <select name="select2[]" multiple … <? php header("Content-Type: text/plain"); foreach ($_GET['select2'] as $selectedOption) echo $selectedOption.
To select multiple options in a drop-down list, use the multiple properties. It allows you to select more than one option while pressing CTRL key.
For windows: Hold down the control (ctrl) button to select multiple options. For Mac: Hold down the command button to select multiple options.
If you want PHP to treat $_GET['select2'] as an array of options just add square brackets to the name of the select element like this: <select name="select2[]" multiple …
Then you can acces the array in your PHP script
<?php
header("Content-Type: text/plain");
foreach ($_GET['select2'] as $selectedOption)
echo $selectedOption."\n";
$_GET may be substituted by $_POST depending on the <form method="…" value.
Change:
<select name="select2" ...
To:
<select name="select2[]" ...
You can use this code to retrieve values from multiple select combo box
HTML:
<form action="c3.php" method="post">
<select name="ary[]" multiple="multiple">
<option value="Option 1" >Option 1</option>
<option value="Option 2">Option 2</option>
<option value="Option 3">Option 3</option>
<option value="Option 4">Option 4</option>
<option value="Option 5">Option 5</option>
</select>
<input type="submit">
</form>
PHP:
<?php
$values = $_POST['ary'];
foreach ($values as $a){
echo $a;
}
?>
Use the following program for select the multiple values from select box.
multi.php
<?php
print <<<_HTML_
<html>
<body>
<form method="post" action="value.php">
<select name="flower[ ]" multiple>
<option value="flower">FLOWER</option>
<option value="rose">ROSE</option>
<option value="lilly">LILLY</option>
<option value="jasmine">JASMINE</option>
<option value="lotus">LOTUS</option>
<option value="tulips">TULIPS</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value=Submit>
</form>
</body>
</html>
_HTML_
?>
value.php
<?php
foreach ($_POST['flower'] as $names)
{
print "You are selected $names<br/>";
}
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="get" action="display.php">
<table width="300" border="1">
<tr>
<td><label>Multiple Selection </label> </td>
<td><select name="select2[]" size="3" multiple="multiple" tabindex="1">
<option value="11">eleven</option>
<option value="12">twelve</option>
<option value="13">thirette</option>
<option value="14">fourteen</option>
<option value="15">fifteen</option>
<option value="16">sixteen</option>
<option value="17">seventeen</option>
<option value="18">eighteen</option>
<option value="19">nineteen</option>
<option value="20">twenty</option>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" tabindex="2" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
You can iterate it directly like this
foreach ($_GET['select2'] as $value)
echo $value."\n";
or you can do it like this
$selectvalue=$_GET['select2'];
foreach ($selectvalue as $value)
echo $value."\n";
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