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    copied!<p>I have asked two previous questions for <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4605471/make-a-form-in-php-that-saves-information-a-user-gives-and-plugs-it-into-a-anoth">taking info put into a form and using it to populate a page</a>, and one to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4771899/php-form-redirect-based-off-of-drop-down-selection">redirect you to a page when you submit the form</a> based off of what you choose in the forms drop down. Now I need these two things to both work for the same form.</p> <p>The code for taking the info from the form and using it to populae the next page is:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $firstname = $_GET['personsName']; echo "My Name is" .$firstname; ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>And the form would look like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;form action="letter.php" method="get"&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="personsName"&gt;&lt;/input&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="submit"&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>The code for selecting a page is:</p> <pre><code>$pages = array('Page 1' =&gt; 'page1.php', 'Page 2' =&gt; 'page2.php', 'Page 3' =&gt; 'page3.php'); if (array_key_exists($_POST['dropdown-name'], $pages)) { header("Location: " . $pages[$_POST['dropdown-name']]); } else { echo "Error processing form"; // submitted form value wasn't in your array, perhaps a hack attempt } </code></pre> <p>I need for both of these to work for the same form, I just haven't been able to figure it out. What I tried was:</p> <pre><code>&lt;form action="&lt;?=$pages?&gt;" method="POST"&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="name" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;select name="letter"&gt; &lt;option value="Page 1"&gt; Page 1 &lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="Page 2"&gt; Page 2 &lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="Page 3"&gt; Page 3 &lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value"Print" /&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>This is obviously wrong. I need this form to take the info put into it, redirect to the page chosen, then populate the page with the other info inputted into the form. The problem is I have no idea how to get the answers I already have together. Thank you to all that help!</p> <p>Current code is this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; $(function UpdateFormAction(){ alert('Launched event handler'); var form = document.getElementById('MyForm'); var list = document.getElementById('PageList'); alert('List item numer ' + list.selectedIndex); var desiredAction = list.options[list.selectedIndex].value alert('Desired action set to ' + desiredAction); form.action = desiredAction; }); &lt;/script&gt; </code></pre> <p>Form is:</p> <pre><code>&lt;form id="MyForm" action="letter.php" method="POST"&gt; &lt;input type="text" name="name" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;select id="PageList" name="letter" onchange="UpdateFormAction();"&gt; &lt;option value="letter.php"&gt;Page 1&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="letter2.php"&gt;Page 2&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="letter3.php"&gt;Page 3&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value"Print" /&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre>
 

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