title: PHP: Echo value of selected item from a dependable dropdown menu
body: <p>I am currently working with a Dependable dropdown menu that functions with the help of jQuery and PHP. The values are being pulled of MySQL database. Is there away to php echo the selected value of a dependable drop down menu? </p>
  
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  <p><strong>HTML/PHP</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form action="" method="post"&gt;
  
          &lt;select name="gender" id="gender" class="update"&gt;
              &lt;option value=""&gt;Select one&lt;/option&gt;
              &lt;?php if (!empty($list)) { ?&gt;
                  &lt;?php foreach($list as $row) { ?&gt;
                      &lt;option value="&lt;?php echo $row['id']; ?&gt;"&gt;
                          &lt;?php echo $row['name']; ?&gt;
                      &lt;/option&gt;
                  &lt;?php } ?&gt;
              &lt;?php } ?&gt;
          &lt;/select&gt;
  
          &lt;select name="category" id="category" class="update"
              disabled="disabled"&gt;
              &lt;option value=""&gt;----&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;/select&gt;
  
          &lt;select name="colour" id="colour" class="update"
              disabled="disabled"&gt;
              &lt;option value=""&gt;----&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;/select&gt;
  
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>