Issue passing a value

[Chrisjc]

First off here is the link to my page

Link to page

I am having an issue passing the "State" value to "dealerlocater. php" page that I have created, I have my index.php which will pull from my database and list all the States in a drop down.

I now am trying to pass a selected state to “dealerlocater. php” which in return would post up all entries found in the database.

How ever I am having an issue with my code could some one please take a look-see and let me know what I am missing here? Iv been stuck on this for a few days now. =(

Here is my code to index.php

<?php
// =========================================================
//  Populate the state selection list from the database
// =========================================================
echo '<form action="dealerlocater.php" method="post">';
echo '<select id="state" name="state" style="margin-bottom:4px;font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; height:28px;width:184px;">';
echo '<option value="">Select Your State</option>';
// =========================================================
// Connection to the Database
// =========================================================
include ('db functions/db_connect.php');
// =========================================================
// SELECT state to make drop down list
// =========================================================
$res = mysql_query("SELECT state FROM dealerlocater GROUP BY state ORDER BY state")
   or die("Invalid query: " . mysql_query());
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)) {
   $st = $row['state'];
   echo "<option value='$st'>$st</option>";
}
echo '</select>';
echo '<br>';
echo '<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">';
?>
</form>

and here is the code to "dealerlocater. php"

<?php
// =========================================================
// Connection to the Database
// =========================================================
include ('db functions/db_connect.php');
mysql_select_db($dealerlocater);

$query= "select * from dealerlocater where * '" . $_POST['*'] . "'"; 
echo $query; 

$result= mysql_query($query); 
$num_results = mysql_num_rows($result); 

for ($i=0; $i <$num_results; $i++) 
{ 
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result); 
echo "state: ", $row['state'], ": ",$row['state']; 
} 
?>

Once I can get the value passed and it knows what to only look for calling on the columns I wish to display will be rather easy.

[Chrisjc]

Can be closed.


Fixed topic... other issues however we seem to be short experts. Found help via another MB.