There is a form used to edit an item in the Alumni module (modlisting.php) which includes a drop-down menu of the available categories.

Around line 157:


When the form is viewed, it renders options, e.g.

Main category
-- Sub cat one
-- Sub cat two

The selected option is displayed based on retrieving $cide.

My problem is this:

When a NEW item is created, it's category name is recorded in the DB in a row 'school'. If a user edits the item and changes the category, the item appears correctly under the new category heading. The problem is that the 'school' row in the DB is not updated.

I can see how to achieve this in modlisting.php except for one thing... I don't know how to get the text of the new selected menu option into a variable.

In essence, I need:



Can anyone help?

No coders out there familiar with this?

P.S When is someone gonna make smilies work properly on this forum. Not showing off XOOPS at it's best really.

Does nobody know how to work with this object?

Take a look at the source code of the form (html)

In this comment submit form for example I have this:



Extended DHTML Form
Plain Text


If i was to get the value of this form I would have to find the name of the form (ex:name="editor"), so I would use:

$value=$_POST['editor'];


Ps:I did not understand your problem, can you explain it better?

Thx for responding Trabis.

I checked the HTML generated by the makeMySelBox object and in this case it is:

I can grab the values '1', '2' or '3' but not the option text.

It appears a $cat variable exists which carries the updated category number, so to set the 'school' var I opted for a simpler solution and just added a conditional statement:


It's not dynamic, but it solves my particular problem.