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Randy The Newbe
04-07-2006, 06:01 AM
I am trying to setup a form that will allow a user to select the state, and then a button to get results. I don't know how to setup the results to show data associated with the selected state.

Could someone tell me how I can get the results to show the name associated with each state?

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>New Page 2</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><select name="state" size="15">
<option value="AK">
Alaska</option>
<option value="AL">
Alabama</option>
<option value="AR">
Arkansas</option>
<option value="AZ">
Arizona</option>
<option value="CA">
California</option>
<option value="CN">
Canada</option>
<option value="CO">
Colorado</option>
<option value="CT">
Connecticut</option>
<option value="DC">
District of
Columbia</option>
<option value="DE">
Deleware</option>
<option value="FL">
Florida</option>
<option value="GA">
Georgia</option>
<option value="HI">
Hawaii</option>
<option value="IA">
Iowa</option>
<option value="ID">
Idaho</option>
<option value="IL">
Illinois</option>
<option value="IN">
Indiana</option>
<option value="KS">
Kansas</option>
<option value="KY">
Kentucky</option>
<option value="LA">
Louisiana</option>
<option value="value">
Massachusetts</option>
<option value="MD">
Maryland</option>
<option value="ME">
Maine</option>
<option value="MI">
Michigan</option>
<option value="MN">
Minnesota</option>
<option value="MO">
Missouri</option>
<option value="MS">
Mississippi</option>
<option value="MT">
Montana</option>
<option value="NC">
North Carolina</option>
<option value="ND">
North Dakota</option>
<option value="NE">
Nebraska</option>
<option value="NH">
New Hampshire</option>
<option value="NJ">
New Jersey</option>
<option value="NM">
New Mexico</option>
<option value="NV">
Nevada</option>
<option value="NY">
New York</option>
<option value="OH">
Ohio</option>
<option value="OK">
Oklahoma</option>
<option value="OR">
Oregon</option>
<option value="PA">
Pennsylvania</option>
<option value="RI">
Rhode Island</option>
<option value="SC">
South Carolina</option>
<option value="SD">
South Dakota</option>
<option value="TN">
Tennessee</option>
<option value="TX">
Texas</option>
<option value="UT">
Utah</option>
<option value="VA">
Virginia</option>
<option value="VI">
Vermont</option>
<option value="WA">
Washington</option>
<option value="WI">
Wisconsin</option>
<option value="WV">
West Virginia</option>
<option value="WY">
Wyoming</option>
</select></p>
<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" U-File="fpweb:///_private/form_results.csv" S-Format="TEXT/CSV" S-Label-Fields="TRUE" -->
<p><button name="B3" type="submit">Get Inside Rep</button></p>
</form>
<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--">
<!--webbot bot="SaveResults" U-File="fpweb:///_private/form_results.csv" S-Format="TEXT/CSV" S-Label-Fields="TRUE" -->
<p>Your inside Rep is: <input type="text" name="results" size="20"></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>

ray326
04-07-2006, 11:35 AM
You'll have to use the value of the state variable as a key to look up the associated name on the server and put it into the response page. You'll need some kind of data store on for the app to use on the server side. Could be a database, a flat file or hard coded into the form handler.

Randy The Newbe
04-08-2006, 08:06 PM
Could someone give me advice on how I could hardcode the form results into the page?