I have a drop down list, and user can select multi options.
So this is part of my code in firtfile.inc
<div class="col-md-8">
<!-- Change report heading so we can grab it on the report page -->
<select name="SearchIn[]" multiple="multiple" onchange="javascript:this.form.Heading.value=this.options[this.selectedIndex].text;" required="required" title="Section">
<option value="" disabled selected>Select</option>
<?php
//Loop over the options
for($i=0;$i<sizeof($SearchCriteria);$i++){
?>
<option value="<?php echo $SearchCriteria[$i]['value'];?>"<?php if($SearchCriteria[$i]['value']=='FacultyName'){echo ' selected="selected"';}?>>
<?php echo $SearchCriteria[$i]['display'];?>
</option>
<?php
}//!End of looping over search criteria
?>
</select>
<!-- Hidden heading field for search report -->
<input type="hidden" name="Heading" valtue="" />
</div>
in another php file, I have included firstfile.inc, and i want to get the list of options that user has selected from drop down list. so I have the folloing in the php file to get the selected options.
$Heading = $dat->if_default('Heading', '');
but it only gives me the first option that the user has selected, but I need all of them. How can I get them?
First of all, I highly recommend that you use jQuery, it will make any DOM manipulation a lot easier.
It's not clear what output you expect, but supposing you're expecting a comma separated string like:
Criteria1, Criteria2, Criteria3
You could:
1) Just use PHP to give you that, with something like:
$SearchIn = $_POST["SearchIn"];
$selectedArr = array();
foreach($SearchCriteria as $item) {
if (in_array($item["value"], $SearchIn)) {
$selectedArr[] = $item["display"];
}
}
$criteria = implode(", ", $selectedArr); // will contain: Criteria1, Criteria2, Criteria3
2) If you want to do it on the client and store the values in <input id="heading"/>
, you can use jQuery and do this (your HTML would change a little, to include the IDs):
<form action="index.php" method="POST">
<div class="col-md-8">
<!-- Change report heading so we can grab it on the report page -->
<select id="section" name="SearchIn[]" multiple="multiple" required="required" title="Section">
<option value="" disabled selected>Select</option>
<?php for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($SearchCriteria); $i++) { ?>
<option value="<?php echo $SearchCriteria[$i]['value'];?>"<?php if($SearchCriteria[$i]['value']=='FacultyName'){echo ' selected="selected"';}?>>
<?php echo $SearchCriteria[$i]['display'];?>
</option>
<?php } ?>
</select>
<!-- Hidden heading field for search report -->
<input id="heading" type="hidden" name="Heading" value="" />
</div>
<input type="submit">
</form>
<script>
$('#section').on("change", function() {
selectedArray = new Array();
$(this).find("option:selected:not([disabled])").each(function() {
selectedArray.push(this.text);
});
$("#heading").val(selectedArray.join(", "));
});
</script>
3) For a pure JavaScript solution (use the same HTML as above):
<script>
document.getElementById("section").onchange=function(){
selectedArray = new Array();
for (x = 0; x < this.length; x++) {
if (this[x].selected && !this[x].disabled) {
selectedArray.push(this[x].text);
}
}
document.getElementById("heading").value = selectedArray.join(", ");
};
</script>