[Resolved] select box

robfog

Okay. The idea behind this is the recorded record for a field appears in a selection box and if needed a new selection can be made.

This works without the echos on one script but with the echos and double quotes for another script I don't get the selection that is recorded in the record. In fact it appears as >A+

Any suggestions would be good or even an alternative would be good.

echo "<table>";
echo "<TR>";
echo "<TD>";
echo "<SELECT NAME=\"Blood\">
                <option value=\"A+\"<? if ($Blood == \"A+\") echo ' selected'; ?>>A+</option>
                <option value=\"A-\"<? if ($Blood == \"A-\") echo ' selected'; ?>>A-</option>
                <option value=\"B+\"<? if ($Blood == \"B+\") echo ' selected'; ?>>B+</option>
                <option value=\"B-\"<? if ($Blood == \"B-\") echo ' selected'; ?>>B-</option>
                <option value=\"AB+\"<? if ($Blood == \"AB+\") echo ' selected'; ?>>AB+</option>
                <option value=\"AB-\"<? if ($Blood == \"AB-\") echo ' selected'; ?>>AB-</option>
                <option value=\"O+\"<? if ($Blood == \"O+\") echo ' selected'; ?>>O+</option>
                <option value=\"O-\"<? if ($Blood == \"O-\") echo ' selected'; ?>>O-</option>
		  </select>";
 echo "</TD>";
echo "</TR>";
echo "</table>";

dankstick

Looks like you have PHP code nested inside of a PHP echo statement, can't do that, try out the following....

<?
        $sel_text = 'selected="selected"';
?>
<form action="<?= $PHP_SELF ?>" method="post">
<table><tr><td><select name="Blood">
                <option value="A+"<? if ($Blood == "A+") echo $sel_text; ?>>A+</option>
                <option value="A-"<? if ($Blood == "A-") echo $sel_text; ?>>A-</option>
                <option value="B+"<? if ($Blood == "B+") echo $sel_text; ?>>B+</option>
                <option value="B-"<? if ($Blood == "B-") echo $sel_text; ?>>B-</option>
                <option value="AB+"<? if ($Blood == "AB+") echo $sel_text; ?>>AB+</option>
                <option value="AB-"<? if ($Blood == "AB-") echo $sel_text; ?>>AB-</option>
                <option value="O+"<? if ($Blood == "O+") echo $sel_text; ?>>O+</option>
                <option value="O-"<? if ($Blood == "O-") echo $sel_text; ?>>O-</option>
</select></tr></td></table><input type="submit" /></form>

robfog

Thanks that brings up the correct information now I just have to figure out how to get the changed infomation to be update in the record.