I am doing a form that users fill in the form and submit it and this form will send to my email inbox. I have a problem on selection option on the form and php
for example html form will look like

<td width="44%" height="30"><select name="Food" size="1">
<option selected>Select One</option>
<option value="../food/western.htm" >Western Food</option>
<option value="../food/italian.htm" >Italian Food</option>
<option value="../food/western.htm" >Asian Food </option>


php code

$Message .= "Food: " . $_POST["food"] . "\n";

in my mailbox will look like this

Food: ../food/western.htm

HOW DO I GET RID OF THE ../FOOD/WESTERN.HTM AND JUST PRINT WESTERN FOOD?

I know it is easy for you as an expert but it is not easy for me. Please give you advise and opinion.

<td width="44%" height="30"><select name="Food" size="1">
<option selected>Select One</option>
<option value="../food/western.htm" >Western Food</option>
<option value="../food/italian.htm" >Italian Food</option>
<option value="../food/western.htm" >Asian Food </option>


Should be

<td width="44%" height="30"><select name="Food" size="1">
<option selected>Select One</option>
<option value="Western Food" >Western Food</option>
<option value="Italian Food" >Italian Food</option>
<option value="Asian Food" >Asian Food </option>

Yes its a dumb answer - but you haven't said if you need the old values.

In fact, if you don't need the old values, then you could simplify even further. The text of the option (between the <OPTION> </option> tags) will become the default value if you don't specify a value inside <OPTION Value="HERE">.

So this would work, in theory:

<select name="Food" size="1">
<option selected>Select One</option>
<option>Western Food</option>
<option>Italian Food</option>
<option>Asian Food </option>
</select>

what if hoachen didn't want to change the value of those options?

- if that the case, then you can use regular expression method or str_replace to take out just the name of the file without the extension; then make the name with all capital letters; finally, concatinate it with the word "FOOD" --> and send to your email :)

<?php

$food_name = strtoupper(basename($_POST['Food'],'.htm')).' FOOD';
echo $food_name;

?>

orbitz is right I don't want to put value "option value=" here" is because, when i click on the selection it will bring me to another page. Yes, I only want it to send to my mail box not to echo. Orbitz, you suggested to put reg to trim it off but where(which part) i should do the reg? any suggestion?

I try it this way
$food = ._$POST['food'];
$new_food = ereg_replace("../food/*.htm", I don't know how to put here, $food));

$Message.= $new_food;

I just want to replace the "../food/.htm" where the *astrick is what i want to print it on my mailbox.

fyrestrtr, first thank you for your code, I try it and it didnt work. I don't want to echo anything and don't really understand what is "strtoupper(basename" Well, I will check it on the web later.



thank you guys for your suggestion.

Well you have to edit it to suit your situation. I'll give you an example of what it will do here:


$_POST['food'] = '../this/is/a/long/directory/to/show/you/how/it/works/apple.htm';
echo strtoupper(basename($_POST['food'],'.htm')).' FOOD';


You if you run that code, you will get as output :

APPLE FOOD

Look up the functions to see what they do. There really isn't any need to get involved in regular expressions for something as simple as this :)

that's good to know- I haven't used basename() before. :) it really makes it simple.

Thanks!