update combo box - reoccuring nightmare

[robfog]

Greetings

Yet again I am having difficulty getting a combo box to display info stored in a database and then allowing a new selection to be made from the box which is then updated.

I have been using

<select name="print">
                <option value="Yes"<? if ($print == 'Yes') echo ' selected'; ?>>Yes</option>
                <option value="No"<? if ($print == 'No') echo ' selected'; ?>>No</option>
         </select>    

Which has been working well but for scripts requiring echo statements such as

echo "<select name=\"print\">
                <option value=\"Yes\"<? if ($print == 'Yes') echo ' selected'; ?>>Yes</option>
                <option value=\"No\"<? if ($print == 'No') echo ' selected'; ?>>No</option>
         </select>";

what I get is displayed in the box is >Yes and >No but these do not correlate to the record saved in the database.

Can I some how change things so I don't need the echo statement or is there an alternative script I can use?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[sidney]

you are trying to do if comparisons and echos in an echo statement

 
$yes="";
$no="";
if ($print == 'Yes') 
{
$yes=" selected";
}
else
{
$no =" selected";
}
 echo "<select name=\"print\"> 
                <option value=\"Yes\"".$yes.">Yes</option> 
                <option value=\"No\"".$no.">No</option> 
         </select>";  

[zapa]

you are doing this...

 <? echo 'text'; html code here <? echo 'another text; ?>?>

when it should be.

<? echo 'text'; ?> html code here <? echo 'another text' ?>

open and close tags are something to look at.

Sidney, gave you a good exmaple to work from.

[robfog]

Sidney thanks for the tip got it working:

if ($print == 'Yes')  

{ 
$Yes=" selected"; 
} elseif ($print == 'No')  

{ 
$No =" selected"; 
} elseif ($print == 'Maybe') 
{ 
$Maybe =" selected"; 
} 

 echo "<select name=\"Print\"> 
                <option value=\"Yes\"".$Yes.">Yes</option> 
                <option value=\"No\"".$No.">No</option>
                <option value=\"Maybe\"".$Maybe.">Maybe</option> 
                </select><br><br>";

Zapa your a little more advanced than I. Could you give me a demo using the code above.

Thanks