retrieve item of menu list

how to retrieve text of the item in the menu list?

<option value ="1">One</option>

how to get the word "One"??

$no = $_POST['???']???

You can't get the word "One", you can only get the number, which you have in the Value as far as I'm aware (atleast with PHP anyway)

<select name="myname">
<option value="1">One</option>
</select>

$no = $_POST["myname"];

Something like that.