Submittin form to a variable from drop down list

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June 22nd, 2004, 01:03 PM

Leigh

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Submittin form to a variable from drop down list

I'm sure this is easy to do but I can't think of a method, so any help would be much appreciated.

In a form, I have a drop down list populated from a database. When the user selects an item and clicks "submit" I want the action of the form to be the selected item. For example, imagine the list contains:
Horse
Mouse
Cat
Dog

The user selects "Cat" and clicks the "submit" button. I want the action to go to "cat.php"

Thanks in advance.

June 27th, 2004, 04:54 AM

DoctorK

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RE: Submittin form to a variable from drop down list

Why not use a "jump off" page?

send the form to to post.php

php Code:

Original - php Code
//post.php //redirect to your wanted location //replace: selectname & your web address $location = $_POST["selectname"]; //or $location = $_GET["selectname"]; $gotome = '<HTML><HEAD>' . "<meta http-equiv='Refresh' content='0; URL= http://your.url.com/yourfolder/"."$location".".extension' >" . '</HEAD></HTML>'; echo $gotome; exit;

 
//post.php
//redirect to your wanted location
//replace: selectname & your web address
 
$location = $_POST["selectname"];
//or $location = $_GET["selectname"];
$gotome = '<HTML><HEAD>' .
"<meta http-equiv='Refresh' content='0;
URL= http://your.url.com/yourfolder/"."$location".".extension' >" . '</HEAD></HTML>';
 
echo $gotome;
exit;

June 28th, 2004, 12:36 PM

Leigh

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RE: Submittin form to a variable from drop down list

Thanks for you reply.

Thinking through the problem, your solution of using a jump page is what I eventually did. However, I used Javascript as there is an abundance of this type of script of the Internet and I'm no Javascript programmer. Also, this is for our intranet so I know that Javascript won't be disabled on the browser.

Thanks again for your time to reply, it is appreciated.

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