Saving the value from a drop-down list

Question

Here's my situation, I have 2 pages, one for selecting a value and one for editing database related things which are associated to that value.

Right now, I have no knowledge ( and have researched a fair bit ) on how to save the value selected from the drop down list into a variable from PHP.

Any ideas?

Solution 1

Its two step: First html:

<form action='databasethings.php' method=post>
<select name="myvalue">
  <option value="value1">Value 1</option>
  <option value="value2">Value 2</option>
  <option value="value3">Value 3</option>
</select>
<input type=submit>
</form>

Its for sending the value to databasethings.php script.(

Then in databasethings.php:

$myvalue=$_POST['myvalue'];
//do something with myvalue

This will catch value1, 2 or 3 from html into $myvalue in php

Solution 2

HTML:

<form action="page.php" method="get">
<select id="drop" name="drop">
  <option value="Volvo">Volvo</option>
  <option value="Saab">Saab</option>
  <option value="Mercedes">Mercedes</option>
  <option value="Audi">Audi</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Submit!">
</form>

page.php:

<?php
echo $_GET['drop'];
?>