Getting JS to play nice with PHP

[phpPete]

Ok dokie!

I make selections from one large select list, then add them to one smaller select list. No problem.

Problem is that only the last item selected is posted.

Now I know if I name the select as : name[] it declares an array and all the selcted options are posted, however, JS doesn't like that syntax, at least I don't think it does, since I'm getting null error notices when i use it.

naming example is:
<form name=&quot;f1&quot; method=&quot;post&quot; action=&quot;<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] ?>&quot;>
<select name=&quot;chosen&quot; multiple=&quot;multiple&quot; size=&quot;10&quot; id=&quot;TEST&quot;>


Thanks in advance,

Pete

 

[trollacious]

Square brackets are reserved characters, and not allowed in element names accessed through Javascript. As well, id or element names that begin with numbers are not allowed, either, and will create errors on the page if accessed with Javascript.

 

[phpPete]

OK...got that. Now as to posting all the selected options...any ideas?

Thanks

Pete

 

[jemminger]

hi pete,

yes: loop through all options in your select and check for the property &quot;selected&quot;. assuming you've created a hypothetical function moveToList() to handle moving from &quot;chosen&quot; to the smaller list, something like this should work:
[tt]
var sel = document.forms[0].chosen;

for (ndx = 0; ndx < sel.length; ndx++) {
if (sel.options[ndx].selected)
moveToList(sel.options[ndx]);
}
[/tt]
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if (!succeed) try();
-jeff