PHP get dropdown value and text

Question

lt select id  animal  name  animal  gt                         lt option value  0  gt --Select Animal-- lt  option gt   lt option value  1  gt Cat lt  option gt   lt option value  2  gt Dog lt  option gt   lt option value  3  gt Cow lt  option gt   lt  select gt   if   POST  submit       animal   POST  animal        I have a dropdown like this  What I want  I want to get selected value and text in button submit using PHP  I mean if it s selected 1st one  I want to get both 1 and Cat  Please help  thank you

User · Answer

you can make it using js file and ajax call. while validating data using js file we can read the text of selected dropdown

$("#dropdownid").val();   for value
$("#dropdownid").text(); for selected value

catch these into two variables and take it as inputs to ajax call for a php file

$.ajax 
   ({
     url:"callingphpfile.php",//url of fetching php  
     method:"POST", //type 
     data:"val1="+value+"&val2="+selectedtext,
     success:function(data) //return the data     
     {

}

and in php you can get it as

    if (isset($_POST["val1"])) {
    $val1= $_POST["val1"] ;
}

if (isset($_POST["val2"])) {
  $selectedtext= $_POST["val1"];
}

User · Answer

You will have to save the relationship on the server side  The value is the only part that is transmitted when the form is posted  You could do something nasty like      lt option value  2 Dog  Dog lt  option   Then split the result apart if you really wanted to  but that is an ugly hack and a waste of bandwidth assuming the numbers are truly unique and have a one to one relationship with the text   The best way would be to create an array  and loop over the array to create the HTML  Once the form is posted you can use the value to look up the text in that same array

User · Answer

animals   array  --Select Animal--    Cat    Dog    Cow     selected key     POST  animal     selected val    animals   POST  animal       Use your  animals list to generate your dropdown list  you now can get the key  amp  the value of that key

User · Answer

Is there a reason you didn t just use this    lt select id  animal  name  animal  gt                           lt option value  0  gt --Select Animal-- lt  option gt     lt option value  Cat  gt Cat lt  option gt     lt option value  Dog  gt Dog lt  option gt     lt option value  Cow  gt Cow lt  option gt   lt  select gt   if   POST  submit    amp  amp    POST  submit      0        animal   POST  animal

[php] PHP get dropdown value and text

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