$_POST['select'] vs document.getElementById('select').options.text

[hayonj]

Hi

I need help from the gurus out there.

Basicly what I'm trying to accomplish is :

I have a select form with various options...

For example a drop menu with all the countries.

Each have a value : e.g. 'af' => Afghanistan

I'm basically trying to send the text in between to the options tags to the mysql database.

All I have succeeded up to now is to send the value
E.g: 'af'

I have foun a way to have JavaScript get the name from the options field.

By doing something like :

Var pname = document.getElementById('select').options
Var index = document.getElementById('select').index

Var text = pname['index'].text

Is there any way to do this through PHP ?

I could send the value to a hidden field and retrieve it with $_POST


Any ideas ?

Thanks

[DrDOS]

You can simply this a lot. I'm assuming that you are using PhP to build all your select options, which is what I do. But the value that gets returned in the form is just the index value for that select option. Then PhP can look up whatever information it needs from that array using that index value, which is the same for both the option and the array element.

[hayonj]

No I have built the form in my HTML page and getting the values through $_POST

[Fou-Lu]

Ah, I see that you hijacked another user's thread.
Refer to my answer in this one: http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=266799 which describes that you must requery it from the provided value. JS itself is capable of swaping the set to provide the results of the displayed text and not the value, but that would be a JS question and not a PHP one. All that matters to PHP is what name=value combinations its received.

As for your vs here, there is no comparison. They are no way similar to each other.