How to get name of selected option in dropdown?

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May 20, 2018, at 10:10 PM

i want to get the name of selected option in dropdown.

I have a dropdown that displays course names and id from database. Now I want get the name of that course where it implement in value. but in insert query select not get name. How do i do that? Thanks

  <?php
     <select name='course' onchange=\"reload(this.form)\"><option value=''>Select one</option>";
              foreach ($dbo->query($quer2) as $noticia2) { 
              if($noticia2['id']==@$cat){echo "<option selected                                                value='$noticia2[id]'>$noticia2[class]</option>"."<BR>";}
            else{echo  "<option value='$noticia2[id]'>$noticia2[class] </option>";}
           }
     </select>";

   if(isset($_REQUEST['sub']))
    {
  $a=$_REQUEST['course']; //in this i want to insert name not id of select option 
    }

   ?>

Answer 1

Your server get's only the data in the value property and the name of the select element passed on requests, not the Name of the options. If you want to get the class instead of the id, use the class as the value:

echo "<select name='course' onchange=\"reload(this.form)\"><option value=''>Select one</option>";
 foreach ($dbo->query($quer2) as $noticia2) { 
   if($noticia2['id']==@$cat){
     echo "<option selected value='".$noticia2["class"]."'> ".$noticia2[class]".</option>"."<BR>";}
            else{echo  "<option value='".$noticia2["class"]."'>".$noticia2["class"] ."</option>";
    }
  }
echo "</select>";