Arrays and Select Boxes

[Anon]

Hello,
I have somewhat of a big problem. Here it goes.
I have a bunch of numbers like: A1, A2... and 1 thru 48. It goes from A1-A8 all the way up to H1-H8 and then 1-48. So there is like 112 entries in this array. I hope you are following me. Ok I am writing a select box:

<select name="switchport">
<option value=\"none\">--Choose--</option>
<option value=\"" . $switchArra[1] . "\">" . $switchArra[1] . "</option>

But i want a certain option selected based on this array number:
if($switchport == "1") { $switchp = $switchArray[$switchport]; }

but i have 112 of these. Is there an easier way of printing the following:
if($switchport == "1") { print "<option value=\"" . $switchArray[$switchport] . "\">" . $switchArray[$switchport] . "</option>\n"; }

if($switchport == "2") { print "<option value=\"" . $switchArray[$switchport] . "\">" . $switchArray[$switchport] . "</option>\n"; }

and so on 112 times??

Sorry if it sounds confusing, it was confusing to explain.

Bill

[Anon]

ok, well, lets try something else. If I understand your question correctly, we should try something like this:

echo "<SELECT NAME=switchport>";
while (list($key, $value) = each($switchArray)) {
echo "<OPTION VALUE=\"$value\"";
if ($switchport == $value)
echo " SELECTED";
echo ">$value</OPTION>";
}
echo "</SELECT>";

Hope that makes sense 😉

Chris

[Anon]

That worked GREAT......saved me ALOT of code...

THANKS!!!!

Bill