Here's the basics of the

greg — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:45:13 +0000

Here's the basics of the drop down list
If you have never worked with forms before you might be better starting on that site's form tutorial rather than jumping straight into a type of form input.

Here's the PHP you use with the form

The tutorials are pretty basic, but certainly enough to get you going and understanding the basics of HTML for forms and PHP receiving the form data.

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The basics in a nut shell is you have a form where a user inputs data, whether a text input, password or drop down. Then that data when "submit" is pressed is sent to another page. The next page gets the sent data with PHP, where you can do what you want with it - search a database, add to a database etc.

The best way is to practice somewhere no public and where you can just play with the outputs.

And of course when using user inputted data always be cautious. Make sure you use security and check their inputs for anything, especially when it's querying a database.