Getting all selected items from multiple dropdown box 2

[annasue]

I am VERY new to PHP but have cgi/perl experience. I have a dropdown box on my form:

<p><font face="Verdana"><small>Question 5 :</small><br>
<small><select name="champ5[]" size="2" multiple>
<option selected value="0">Choose</option>
<option value="Reponse5_1">1</option>
<option value="Reponse5_2">2</option>
<option value="Reponse5_3">3</option>
<option value="Reponse5_4">4</option>
<option value="Reponse5_5">5</option>
</select></small></font></p>

I want to be able to figure out which one or more options the user has chosen but I don't know how to get it back from the form???

Can you help?

Thanks in advance.

 

[bastienk]

comes back as a comma separated value set

either explode it on the comma or use a foreach loop to go thru the values

 

[annasue]

Thank you for your reply. What is my string, coming into my file? I've tried $champ5 and that doesn't seem to be it; I also tried $champ5[] and it can't handle that???

Thanks,
Anna Sue

 

[bastienk]

the client side element should read

<select name="champ5">

and the serverside element should read

$_POST['champ5']

the new versions of php use $_POST['varname'] and
$_GET['varname']

 

[sleipnir214]

annasue:
I recommend that you continue to name your multiple SELECT tag "champ5[]". Just keep in mind that $_POST['champ5'] is itself an array containing all the values that were selected and submitted.

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