Urgent Help - drop down option

[adityakonda]

I am need for some desperate help.

I have created an php file – adminindex.php, where the admin users have the facility to edit a form.

I am not able to recall the original value selected in the drop drown menu, every time this form is opened everything defaults back. I tried by best to get my head around it, but in vain.

This is the code for that form, the rest of the file is attached:

<tr>
<td class="hr">Phone Ext </td>
<td class="dr"><input type="text" name="PhoneExt" value="<? echo $row["PhoneExt"] ?>"></td>
<td class="hr">Location </td>
<td class="dr"><input type="text" name="Location" value="<? echo $row["Location"] ?>"></td>
<td class="hr">Equipment </td>
<td class="dr"><input type="text" name="Equipment" value="<? echo $row["Equipment"] ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="hr">Subject </td>
<td class="dr" colspan=5><input size=90 type="text" name="Subject" value="<? echo $row["Subject"] ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="hr">Fault Description </td>
<td class="dr" colspan=5><textarea name="FaultDescription" cols="80" rows="6" wrap="PHYSICAL"><? echo $row["FaultDescription"] ?></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="hr">Urgency Value </td>
<td class="dr"><select name="UrgencyValue"><option value="Normal">Normal</option><option value="Critical">Critical</option>
<option value="High">High</option><option value="Low">Low</option><option value="Query">Query</option></select></td>
</tr>

For eg. Originally the value critical was selected the first time around, but when you come back to this form, the value is defaulted to ‘Normal’ – the first value in the dropdown menu.

Can anyone please correct this code and tell me where I am wrong?

Your help would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

Adi

[gardnc]

The values in the form must be saved in the action portion of the page as cookies or session variables. Then in the form code you print "selected" in the option tag if the form value submitted = the option value.

i.e.:

action portion of page:

$SESSION['UrgencyValue'] = $POST['UrgencyValue'];

Form portion of page:

$value = $_SESSION[UrgencyValue']

---

<option value="Normal"
<?php
if ($value == "Normal") print " selected";
?>

Normal</option>

<option value="High"
<?php
if ($value == "High") print " selected";
?>

Normal</option>

<option value="Low"
<?php
if ($value == "Low") print " selected";
?>

Normal</option>

and so on for all the form values.

[adityakonda]

Cheers for you suggestion,

But i seem to get an error message saying indefined variable, I think i putting the post method in the wrong place.

[adityakonda]

Thanks for giving me the idea for printing the selected.

I have not exactly used the method you have suggested, but it helped to think of using echo

and this what i have acheived, it pulls out the right value

<td class="hr">Status&nbsp;</td>
<td class="dr"><select name="Status">
<option value="Active"
<?php
if ($row["Status"] == "Active") print " selected";
?>

Active</option>

<option value="InActive"
<?php
if ($row["Status"] == "InActive") print " selected";
?>

InActive</option>

<option value="UnOpened"
<?php
if ($row["Status"] == "UnOpened") print " selected";
?>

UnOpened</option>
</select></td>

But,only problem is, it does record the value if it has been changed.

For e.g. if i chage active to inactive, inactive is not being captured.

Any suggestions?

Thank you once again