Form Default Selection

[werkkrew]

This might be more of an HTML question but here goes

Here is what I have to select the user level when I edit the settings for a user:

<?
        //Block User Level Assignment from Power User, but not Admin
    if ($user_level = 5){
    print "<tr>";
      print "<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">User Access Level</td>";
      print "<td><select name=\"user_level2\" value=\"$user_level\">";
          print "<option value=\"0\">Band";
          print "<option value=\"1\">Writer";
          print "<option value=\"2\">Artist";
          print "<option value=\"3\">News Poster";
          print "<option value=\"4\">Power User";
          print "<option value=\"5\">Administrator</td>";
    print "</tr>";
    }
?>

Why doesnt the value=$user_level make it so that the form selects the current user level instead of the first choice.

IE when I load a user to edit, it chooses band no matter what user_level is set to...

Any ideas

[cgraz]

I'm not sure how your code works or what it is you're doing, or why you're assining user level a value within the if (if you're checking to see if user level equals 5, use two equal signs).

You need to specify selected in the option you want selected.

<option value="bla" selected>Bla

So in your case, if you want to determine which needs to be selected, you could do something like this:

<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">User Access Level</td>
<td><select name="user_level2"> <!-- the value doesn't go here -->
   <option value="0"<? if ($user_level == '0') { echo " selected"; } ?>">Band</option>
   <option value="1"<? if ($user_level == '1') { echo " selected"; } ?>">Writer</option>
   <option value="2"<? if ($user_level == '2') { echo " selected"; } ?>">Artist</option>
   <option value="3"<? if ($user_level == '3') { echo " selected"; } ?>">News Poster</option>
   <option value="4"<? if ($user_level == '4') { echo " selected"; } ?>">Power User</option>
   <option value="5"<? if ($user_level == '5') { echo " selected"; } ?>">Administrator</option>
   </select>
</td>
</tr>

Notice the value doesn't go in the select tag, but in the option tag.

I avoided printing everything in php like you did. Weaving in and out makes the code much cleaner and easier to read.

Cgraz

[werkkrew]

Not having the double ='s was just a typo

What I want to do is edit a user...and be able to choose any choice, but have it set to the current value initally.

[cgraz]

Try my code. It will select the appropriate field based on the $user_level variable.

Cgraz

[werkkrew]

Sure it enough, it worked, thanks a lot