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user1001176
user1001176

Reputation: 1163

Pass text of selectbox options through php form

i wanted to pass the text of the option selected in a selectbox through traditional form submit and get it on other page

normally we get the value of selected option from selectbox using $degree=$_REQUEST['example']; 

<select name="example">
<option value="1">example</option>
</select>

What we normally get is value that is if we echo $degree would be 1. I want the text that is example

Upvotes: 0

Views: 110

Answers (2)

Mehdi Karamosly
Mehdi Karamosly

Reputation: 5428

as @Andy previously mentioned:

you can use a delimiter like below if you need both values :

<select name="example">
    <option value="1_example">example</option>
</select>

in your php you do like below :

$temp = explode('_', $_REQUEST['example']);
echo $temp[0] ; // will output '1'
echo $temp[1]; // will output 'example'

Upvotes: 1

Andy
Andy

Reputation: 8908

This is a function of HTML in the browser, not PHP. You can either use JavaScript to scrape out the text inside the option tag, or just put the string inside the value and use string parsing with some separator in PHP to get it out as such:

<option value="1:::example">example</option>

If you truly only care about the text and not at all about the number, just replace the number with the text:

<option value="example">example</option>

Upvotes: 4

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