The form doesn't send the information right.

Hello guys! I'm having a problem with a my simple form. The problem is that neither "echo $_POST['choice'];" nor the switch outputs anything. That probably means something wring with the form. This script is available for the users at index.php?d=test and I think maybe that has something to do with it in the <form> tag. In case it's worth mentioning the text "This works!" still appears everytime I submit the form.
I'm not sure if I'm expressing myself well here, but please tell me if you don't understand what I mean.

<?php
if ( isset ( $_POST['options'] ) ) {
            echo "This works!";
	echo $_POST['choice'];
                switch ( $_POST['choice'] ) {
                    
                    case "3":
                        echo "Option 3 is chosen";
                    break;
                    
                    case "2":
                        echo "Option 2 is chosen";
                    break;
                    
                    case "1":
                        echo "Option 1 is chosen";
                    break;
                
                }
        
    }
   else  {
?>

<table>
	<tr>
		<td>
			<form action="" method="post">
				<select>
					<option name=\"choice\" value=\"1\">-- Options --</option>
					<option name=\"choice\" value=\"2\">Option 2</option>
					<option name=\"choice\" value=\"3\">Option 3</option>

				</select>
				<input type="submit" name="options" value="Submit" />
			</form>
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>
<?php } ?>

PHP:

 

i suggest you to learn basic html tags

                <select name="choice">
                    <option value="1">-- Options --</option>
                    <option value="2">Option 2</option>
                    <option value="3">Option 3</option>

HTML:

 

I know basic html tags. I've tried your suggested code, but that didn't work. I've changed it now so that the name-attribute is only inside the select-tag but it still doesn't work... Do you have any other suggestions?

 

uhm why are you escaping the values with a back-slash? tried to actually put the page name in the action attribute for the form? the code MC_delta_T gave you ought to work if there is no other problems we can't see

 

this solution should work =)

if you want to see if all the data were passed or not, try this

echo "<pre>"; print_r($_POST); echo "</pre>";

PHP:

with this you can see all the contents of the POST variable.

 

<select name="choose">
<option value="0">Choose an option ..</option>
<option value="1">First Option</option>
<option value="2">Second Option</option>
<option value="3">Third Option</option>
</select>

<?php
$pselect = $_POST["choose"];
echo "You selected option Nr.", $pselect;
?>

PHP:

 

I noticed that your HTML code has PHP like quotation marks \".
You should just replace it with only quotes "choice".
Now try your program as you like ....