RE: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question

2002-09-10 Thread Mario Ohnewald
Hello, after a little break ( i really needed it ;P), i tried to get this thing wotkig again. I changed action to .$PHP_SELF. and i added the echo to test if it works: echo $_POST['test']; But still emtpy, what do i do wrong? ?php echo ' form name=test action='.$PHP_SELF.' method=POSTbr

Re: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question

2002-09-10 Thread yasin inat
u cannot use form's name as variable . u should replace this row select id=colorPicker like this select name=test id=colorPicker u can see the selected option's value -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:

Re: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question

2002-09-10 Thread timo stamm
Hi Mario, you can set error_reporting to E_ALL to give you more hints to bugs and to produce clean code. You are having two problems. The first was related to your form and has been addressed by Yasin. The second is that you have autoglobals off. That means you have to use

Re: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question

2002-09-10 Thread timo stamm
Hi Mario, you can set error_reporting to E_ALL to give you more hints to bugs and to produce clean code. You are having two problems. The first was related to your form and has been addressed by Yasin. The second is that you have autoglobals off. That means you have to use

[PHP] dropdown Newbie question

2002-09-05 Thread Mario Ohnewald
Hello! I am very new in php and i have a little dummy question ;D I have a dropdown box with a entry in it called Coctail Blue Now i want to put the selected string (Coctail Blue in this case) in to a variable when i press the button below. options.php is the page it should go after. // ..SNIP

RE: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question

2002-09-05 Thread Scott Houseman
Message- From: Mario Ohnewald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 1:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question Hello! I am very new in php and i have a little dummy question ;D I have a dropdown box with a entry in it called Coctail

Re: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question

2002-09-05 Thread Paul Nicholson
-Original Message- From: Mario Ohnewald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 1:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question Hello! I am very new in php and i have a little dummy question ;D I have a dropdown box with a entry in it called

RE: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question

2002-09-05 Thread Mario Ohnewald
']; Regards -|Scott -Original Message- From: Mario Ohnewald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 1:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question Hello! I am very new in php and i have a little dummy question ;D I have

Re: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question

2002-09-05 Thread Justin French
']; Regards -|Scott -Original Message- From: Mario Ohnewald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 1:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question Hello! I am very new in php and i have a little dummy question ;D I have a dropdown

RE: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question

2002-09-05 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] // Theme echo ' form name=theme action=options.php target=right class=menu nbsp;nbsp;select name=theme'; for($i=0;$isizeof($theme_name);$i++) { echo option value='.$i.'.$theme_name[$i]./option\n; } echo '/selectnbsp;nbsp;input type=submit name=get value=select METHOD=POST'; // or: echo

RE: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question

2002-09-05 Thread Mario Ohnewald
Well, this is my original Code: -- // Theme echo ' form name=theme action=options.php target=right class=menu METHOD=POST nbsp;nbsp;select name=theme'; for($i=0;$isizeof($theme_name);$i++) { echo option value='.$i.'.$theme_name[$i]./option\n; } echo '/selectnbsp;nbsp;input

RE: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question

2002-09-05 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Well, this is my original Code: // Theme echo ' form name=theme action=options.php target=right class=menu METHOD=POST nbsp;nbsp;select name=theme'; for($i=0;$isizeof($theme_name);$i++) { echo option value='.$i.'.$theme_name[$i]./option\n; } echo '/selectnbsp;nbsp;input type=submit

Re: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question

2002-09-05 Thread Justin French
Why don't you take the guesswork out of it a bit, and NOT write to a file just yet... instead, just echo the var to the screen. IF that works, then we know it's not your form that is the problem, it's the exec(). Justin on 06/09/02 12:08 AM, Mario Ohnewald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well,

RE: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question

2002-09-05 Thread Mario Ohnewald
From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Did you put a closing form tag? /form you are right, the closeing tag was missing, well, it still doesnt work/stays emty ;/ // Theme echo ' form name=theme action=options.php target=right class=menu method=POST nbsp;nbsp;select name=theme';

RE: [PHP] dropdown Newbie question

2002-09-05 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] Did you put a closing form tag? /form you are right, the closeing tag was missing, well, it still doesnt work/stays emty ;/ [/snip] Does this form refer to itself, or another page? Also, like Justin said, echo the variable before writing to a directory to see what is getting written, if