Keeping values with selfsubmission

[Anon]

Can anyone tell me how to keep a value when a choice is selfsubmissing. Below you can see what i have so far but because the file is reloaded every time the pulldown box doesn't show the choice when it isn't the first in line.

<form action="bestellen.php3" method="get">
<select name="choice" class="pulldown" onchange="submit()">

<option value="001">Complete
<option value="002">Part1
</select>

<?

if ($choice==001)
{
$form="<form name=\"MTF\" action=\"/affiliate/mail.php3\" method=\"post\">";

$optionvalue1="<option value=\"001\">Complete";

$optionvalue1="<option value=\"002\">Part1";

}
if ($choice==002)
{
$form="<form name=\"MTF \" action=\"contract.php3\" method=\"post\">";
$optionvalue1="<option value=\"001\">Part1";

$optionvalue1="<option value=\"002\">Complete";
}
?>
</form>

[Anon]

You need to first, make your form properly.

This ...

<option value="001">Complete
<option value="002">Part1

Should be this ...

<option value="001">Complete</option>
<option value="002">Part1</option>

Then, if you want the form to remember which choice the user made, you need to add "SELECTED" to the option that is to be set as default.

One way to do it, depending on the number of options you will ultimately have is to check the value of the submitted variable for each option, if it matches, then add "SELECTED" to that option.

<option value="001"
<?
if ($choice == "001") {
echo " SELECTED";
}
?>

Complete</option>
<option value="002"
<?
if ($choice == "002") {
echo " SELECTED";
}
?>
Part1</option>

If you are going to have large numbers of options, you probably want to use switch or some other more efficient method.