Initial value in list box?

[blitzwing]

I'm running a query from a mysql database, and putting that data back into a form. Putting the correct data into the text boxes and textarea boxes is easy enough, but I've ran into a problem with setting list boxes to the right initial value. I figure I can just do a switch for each list box, but I was wondering if there was something quicker and cleaner that would do it?

[Natty_Dreadlock]

I don't know which "switch" u think of, however, there's a easy way.
I assume u have a while loop that goes through the recordset and displays every entry like this:

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<option value=\"" . $row["id"] . "\" ";
if($row["id"] == $selectrow)
{
echo " selected=\"selected\"";
}
echo ">";
echo $row["text"];
echo "</option>";
}

So u see, every entry's id is compared to $selectedrow. When u set $selectedrow to the id of some entry, this entry will be selected by default. Actually it's a very simple task, just check every entry and echo the additional html attrib selected="selected" if u wanna select it.
Hope that helps

[blitzwing]

Yes, that helps. Thanks a lot.