How to create a form in PHP to download reports from external source?

I have a list of reports that I would like to be able to pull from a form dropdown and use PHP to generate a url to download this report.





This is the base url:





http://website/reports/report.aspx?ItemP... NAME}Tab%26amp;Export=true"%26gt;





I would like to fill in REPORT NAME from the dropdown box and print the link on the page.

How to create a form in PHP to download reports from external source?
Hmm...So the reports themselves are located at an external source, and you'd just like to print a link to that report....with a variable "report name"?





%26lt;?php





$base_url="http://www.website.com/repo...





$report=$_POST['report_name']; //From Select Box





//We concenate the value of $report to the rest of our URL





$list_url=$base_url.$report;





//Print URL





echo $list_url;





?%26gt;





%26lt;form name="form" method="post" action="#"%26gt;





%26lt;select name="report_name"%26gt;


%26lt;option value="report1.htm"%26gt;Report1%26lt;/option%26gt;


%26lt;option value="report2.htm"%26gt;Report2%26lt;/option%26gt;


%26lt;/select%26gt;


%26lt;/form%26gt;





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In the code above, you just set the value of your "option" tags


to whatever you'd like the variable part of the URL to be...when the PHP script parses your report_name POST variable, it will append that to the end of your base URL and print the result.








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