keep selection in form

limiPHP

Hey smart ones,

I have a form.

when a user clicks the submit button and forgot to fill-out one text field an error message comes up.

I'm trying to get the below drop-down menu to stay selected with what the user selected before they clicked the submit (so they don't have to keep selecting every time they make a mistake)

<? $strGetProv = "SELECT * FROM mobile_provider ORDER BY provider";

$rstGetProviders = sqlQuery($strGetProv, $mySql);		

foreach ($rstGetProviders as $provider){

if ($_POST['provider']){

echo "<option value=\"{$provider['id']}\" selected>{$provider['name']}</option>";

}else{

echo "<option value=\"{$provider['id']}\">{$provider['name']}</option>";
}
}
?>

The above code doesn't do it. why?

Thanks

saraadmin

I'm sure this is too simple and I must have misunderstood:

Perhaps
if ($_POST['provider'])

should be:

if ($_POST['provider'] == $provider['id'])

Also, I assume you've just not posted the <select> element code? And that its definitely called 'provider'?

limiPHP

No, you haven't misunderstood...
It IS simple, but I'm too new to all this 😉

I thought that by typing "if ($POST['provider'])" it's like asking: if ($POST['provider'] == true)

but I guess it wasn't enough for this type of action.

Thanks so much!
it worked!

PHPmill

it is true, it's always true if $_POST['provider'] has any value, thus it would be true for every option and they would all contain the selected attribute