title: how do i get the select value not the option value in php
body: <p>Hi can some one help me to my problem.</p>
  
  <p>I have a html and php function here all i want to to is to echoed a select value not the option value</p>
  
  <p>here is my code
  Ouput: Patrick or any for the name when I select and send the button</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php if(isset($_REQUEST['send'])){echo $_POST['test'];}?&gt;
  &lt;form method="post"&gt;
  &lt;select name="test"&gt;&lt;option value="1"&gt;Patrick&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="2"&gt;Maria&lt;/option&gt;&lt;option value="3"&gt;Fe&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt;&lt;input type="submit" name="send" value="submit"&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>