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MBell86
MBell86

Reputation: 79

Drop Down Select File And Include It into Same Page

Tried to do this but it's only echoing the value not actually choosing the .php file to include into the same page. The code is below...

<body>
<form name="form1" method="POST" action="test.php">
<select name="select" onChange="document.form1.submit()">
 <option selected>Select an Industry</option>
 <option value="members">members</option>
 <option value="Female">Female Members</option>
</select>
</form>

<?php

$file = $_POST['select'];
echo $file;


$path_file = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']/$file.php;
if(file_exists($path_file))
{
  echo("The file does not exist at: $path_file");
}
else
{
  require_once($path_file);
}?>
</body>

Once sorted I am hoping it will include a php file into the same page! Also need a default page before changing it, so Members be the main page, then people can select Female to see just female etc.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1512

Answers (1)

Evgeniy Kiselyov
Evgeniy Kiselyov

Reputation: 123

Change 

$path_file = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']/$file.php;

to 

$path_file = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/".$file.".php";

But this is very bad for security (you can't trust _POST data). Better change to something like:

if (isset($_POST['select']) && $_POST['select'])
{
if ($_POST['select'] == 'something')
 include 'something.php';
if ($_POST['select'] == 'somethingelse')
 include 'another.php';
} else {
  include 'default.php';
}

Upvotes: 1

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