selected state/country

[rauri]

Just wondering if anyone knows a tidier way of doing this...

I have a registration form that includes 'select your state', when the user submits the form and has left an empty field (error) the page reloads, if a state was selected it remembers that the user has selected a state.

it works at the moment, but it's not an intelligent solution, especially when it comes to the country list, with 200+ entries.

here's the code:

<select name="physical_state">
<option value="ACT" <?php if ($physical_state=="ACT") {echo (" SELECTED");}?> >Australian Capital Territory</option>
<option value="NSW" <?php if ($physical_state=="NSW") {echo (" SELECTED");}?> >New South Wales</option>
<option value="NZ"  <?php if ($physical_state=="NZ") {echo (" SELECTED");}?>  >New Zealand</option>
<option value="NT"  <?php if ($physical_state=="NT") {echo (" SELECTED");}?>  >Northern Territory</option>
<option value="QLD" <?php if ($physical_state=="QLD") {echo (" SELECTED");}?> >Queensland</option>
<option value="SA"  <?php if ($physical_state=="SA") {echo (" SELECTED");}?>  >South Australia</option>
<option value="TAS" <?php if ($physical_state=="TAS") {echo (" SELECTED");}?> >Tasmania</option>
<option value="VIC" <?php if ($physical_state=="VIC") {echo (" SELECTED");}?> >Victoria</option>
<option value="WA"  <?php if ($physical_state=="WA") {echo (" SELECTED");}?>  >Western Australia</option>
</select>

thanks in advance...

rauri.

[thorpe]

you would be better off doing this client side with javascript to take some work away from the server, but yeah.... it works.

[rauri]

do you have some example javascript that would do the job?

rauri.