Dropdown, Validate or not to Validate

Jarba

I am inserting data to a database through a dropdown menu!

The code looks simply like this:

<SELECT NAME='Country'>
<?php echo "<OPTION SELECTED>$Country</OPTION>" ?>
<OPTION selected = "selected">Sweden</OPTION>
<OPTION>Ireland</OPTION>
<OPTION>Denmark</OPTION>
<OPTION>England</OPTION>
</SELECT>

If this was just a pure dropdown list, there would be no empty option in the dropdown list.

However it seems the <?php echo.... adds an empty row to the dropdown list. This means I am forced to validate this since the field in the database requires some input.

The easiest thing I can think of though is to somehow avoid that the <?php echo... adds this empty row. Does anyone know if this can be done in a simple way?

Thanks a lot / Åsa

Shadeless

leave this 1 out <?php echo "<OPTION SELECTED>$Country</OPTION>" ?>

and the empty row will be gone. u don't need it if u don't wanna populate the dropbox from something else

The selected option will be appointed to $Country

lurius

1)
Where does this $Country variable come from? If it's from form, try echo $GET['Country'] or $POST['Country'].
2)
You have 2 options selected...

Check that Country (wherever it comes from) variable is not empty.

Try:

<SELECT NAME='Country'>
<OPTION SELECTED>$_POST['Country']</OPTION>
<OPTION>Sweden</OPTION>
<OPTION>Ireland</OPTION>
<OPTION>Denmark</OPTION>
<OPTION>England</OPTION>
</SELECT>

-Lurius

Jarba

I removed the second selected and used the $_POST['Country']!!

Now its working the way I want it to and I dont need to spend time on trying to figure out how to validate it 🙂

I really appreciate this forum, everyone is so nice and helpful!

   Have a nice weekend everyone!!

                             / Åsa