[RESOLVED] Seting the selected option dynamically

[seanlyons]

I have a dir listing appearing in a list field of a form as showwn below

<?php 
    $current_dir = 'images/upload/';
    $dir = opendir($current_dir);


    $list = "<select name=\"listbox\">";
	while ($file = readdir($dir))
    {

        $list .= "<option value=\"$file\">$file</option>";
    }
    $list .= "</select>";
    {
	echo $list;
	}
    closedir($dir);

?>

What I need to do now, which I can't work out is the following

How can I get the already selected value from the database to show as the top option in my list?

What's next?

[LoganK]

I don't know how your database is setup, but let's say you have the filename of the "already selected value" in the DB, and you assign it to $filename. From there, it's really simple to do something like this:

if ($file == $filename)
{
     echo "<option value='$file' SELECTED>$file</option>";
}

That will make it selected by default. If you want it to show up at the top of the list however, that's a different story, one that I can't solve without two foreach() loops.

[seanlyons]

Thanks very much. All sorted.

[LoganK]

Allright then! Glad it worked out!