Selects coming across

[The1corrupted]

This is currently befuddling me and it's a little bit of html/php but the thing that isn't working is the php...

Basically, my issue is that my <select> doesn't create a text value to be input into a mysql table like so...

Page 1

<select name='name'>
<option value='Yay'>yay</option>
</select>

and I'm trying to input it into a mysql table...
[PHP]
<?php
$nam=$_POST['name'];
mysql_query("INSERT INTO `user_table`(`name`) VALUES ('$nam');
?>[/PHP]

The field Name is set as a text type, and I am confused as to what is wrong.

[ronverdonk]

To start, your query is incorrectly specified, like not closing the string

mysql_query("INSERT INTO `user_table`(`name`) VALUES ('$nam');
 

should be

mysql_query("INSERT INTO `user_table`(`name`) VALUES ('$nam')");

Otherwise it means that you have another error, because at first sight the code looks ok, but I am missing the other code around your select box.

So show all code involved, including the form definition and the start of your php code to catpure the POSTed variables.

Ronald :cool: