how to save a selection from dropdown menu

robinson

Hello everybody,
Php:
I have a dropdown list box. This list box works. Problem is when I save the selected item. The list box could have 1 or 2 items per line, example “hard drive” or “monitor”, or “network card”. When I save the selection, it only saves the first word if the line consists of 2 words. I searched for an example on this site but I couldn’t quite find one that fits my problem.

If its “hard drive” it would save “hard” which is not what I want
If its “monitor” it would save monitor which is fine.
If its “network card” it would save “network” which is not what I want..
Any ides, friends

The dropdow list box code
echo "<td colspan='2'><font size='2'>Category:</font>";
echo "<select name='categoryfield' size='1'>";
foreach($categories as $dropdown)
{ echo "<option value=" . $dropdown . ">" . dropdown . "</option>";}
echo "</select>";
echo "</td>";

part of the code that saves the content of categoryfield
$add_query = "INSERT INTO classifieddb VALUES ('','$categoryfield','$databasetimestamp' ,'$descfield','$pricefield','$emailfield','$provicefield','$citefield','$countryfield','$onelinefield')";
categoryfield

jerdo

echo "<td colspan='2'><font size='2'>Category:</font>"; 
echo "<select name='categoryfield' size='1'>"; 
foreach($categories as $dropdown) 
{ 
echo "<option value=\"$dropdown\">$dropdown</option>";
} 
echo "</select>"; 
echo "</td>";

Without quotation marks, or single quotes, around the value of textboxes, select lists, etc. white space(space, return, etc) is considered the end of the value. Also you don't have to do so much string concatenation when you echo.

robinson

Hi jerdo

your answer worked, excelent.. thanks...

i al have another related problem and tried the same resolution you recommended earlyer and it didn't work.
problem:
i wrote something like a classified script ...everything works soo far but when someone selects a category (example: network card) it only sends the first word "network" to the next page and not the entire selection which is network card.. why is that...
I noticed in the url it seprates the word into 2 halfs before it sends the information...
basically what i'm doing is select the network card and have it display it on the next page which works if you select just one word but if a selection has 2 words it wont work.

php:

tried the folloing code to get the thing to work:
<? echo "<a href=\"displaylist.php?cmd=".urlencode($row["CATEGORY"])."\">". $row["CATEGORY"]." (".$row["ENTRIES"].")</A>";
?>

<?echo "<a href=\"displaylist.php?cmd=".urlencode($row["CATEGORY"])."\">". $row["CATEGORY"]." (".$row["ENTRIES"].")</A>";
?>