Using $_POST to get select option value from HTML

Question

I use select as below:

<select name="taskOption">
    <option>First</option>
    <option>Second</option>
    <option>Third</option>
</select>

How do I get the value from the select option and store it into a variable for future use, in PHP?

Answer 1

-- html file --

<select name='city[]'> 
                <option name='Kabul' value="Kabul" > Kabul </option>
                <option name='Herat' value='Herat' selected="selected">             Herat </option>
                <option name='Mazar' value='Mazar'>Mazar </option>
</select>

-- php file --

$city = (isset($_POST['city']) ? $_POST['city']: null);
print("city is: ".$city[0]);

Answer 2

You can do it like this, too:

<?php
if(isset($_POST['select1'])){
    $select1 = $_POST['select1'];
    switch ($select1) {
        case 'value1':
            echo 'this is value1<br/>';
            break;
        case 'value2':
            echo 'value2<br/>';
            break;
        default:
            # code...
            break;
    }
}
?>


<form action="" method="post">
    <select name="select1">
        <option value="value1">Value 1</option>
        <option value="value2">Value 2</option>
    </select>
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Go"/>
</form>