Drop down box won't work!

[Houdini]

I have two function that I would like to use in different places and not put the array values in a database so here are the two functions.

function StateCode(){

  $stateCode=array(1=> "AL",
  "AK","AZ","AR","CA","CO","CT","DE","FL","GA","HI",
  "ID","IL","IN","IA","KS","KY","LA","ME","MD","MA",
  "MI","MN","MS","MO","MT","NE","NV","NH","NJ","NM",
  "NY","NC","ND","OH","OK","OR","PA","RI","SC","SD",
  "TN","TX","UT","VT","VA","WA","WV","WI","WY");
  return $stateCode;
}
function StateName(){

  $stateName=array(1=>"Alabama",
  "Alaska","Arizona","Arkansas","California","Colorado","Connecticut","Delaware","Florida","Georgia","Hawaii",
  "Idaho","Illinois","Indiana","Iowa","Kansas","Kentucky","Louisiana","Maine","Maryland","Massachusetts",
  "Michigan","Minnesota","Mississippi","Missouri","Montana","Nebraska","Nevada","New Hampshire",
  "New Jersey","New Mexico","New York","North Carolina","North Dakota","Ohio","Oklahoma","Oregon","Pennsylvania",
  "Rhode Island","South Carolina","South Dakota","Tennessee","Texas","Utah","Vermont","Virginia","Washington",
  "West Virginia","Wisconsin","Wyoming");
  return $stateName;
}

And here is the code that I can not get to work for some reason what could I be doing wrong.

<?php

               $stateName=getStateName();
               $stateCode-getStateCode();
               for ($n=1;$n<=50;$n++)  
               {
                  $state=$stateName[$n];
                  $scode=$stateCode[$n];
                  echo "<option value='$scode'";
                  if ($scode== "AL") 
                      echo " selected";
                  echo ">$state\n";
               }
?>
                  </select>

[drew010]

might have to do with the
$stateCode-getStateCode();

should be
$stateCode = getStateCode();

[Houdini]

Well I fixed the typo and even added spaces but still no go, I hooped it would be something simple, and now I know I need tohave my glasses checked again.

[drew010]

i got it to work with this code

<?php

function getStateCode(){
      $stateCode=array(1=> "AL",
      "AK","AZ","AR","CA","CO","CT","DE","FL","GA","HI",
      "ID","IL","IN","IA","KS","KY","LA","ME","MD","MA",
      "MI","MN","MS","MO","MT","NE","NV","NH","NJ","NM",
      "NY","NC","ND","OH","OK","OR","PA","RI","SC","SD",
      "TN","TX","UT","VT","VA","WA","WV","WI","WY");
      return $stateCode;
    }

function getStateName(){
      $stateName=array(1=>"Alabama",
      "Alaska","Arizona","Arkansas","California","Colorado","Connecticut","Delaware","Florida","Georgia","Hawaii",
      "Idaho","Illinois","Indiana","Iowa","Kansas","Kentucky","Louisiana","Maine","Maryland","Massachusetts",
      "Michigan","Minnesota","Mississippi","Missouri","Montana","Nebraska","Nevada","New Hampshire",
      "New Jersey","New Mexico","New York","North Carolina","North Dakota","Ohio","Oklahoma","Oregon","Pennsylvania",
      "Rhode Island","South Carolina","South Dakota","Tennessee","Texas","Utah","Vermont","Virginia","Washington",
      "West Virginia","Wisconsin","Wyoming");
      return $stateName;
    }

$stateName=getStateName();
$stateCode=getStateCode();

for ($n=1;$n<=50;$n++) {
  $state=$stateName[$n];
  $scode=$stateCode[$n];
  echo "<option value='$scode'";
  if ($scode== "AL") 
    echo " selected";
  echo ">$state\n";
  }

?>

[Houdini]

I should have known that the get was wrong I saved the functions as getStateName and getStateCode and yep it worked. That will save me having to use the database instead whenever I need the function I just call it.

Thanks, it was simple (especially my needing new glasses and seeing a hypen as an equal sign. Now I can continue with the rest of the program.

[Weedpacket]

Couldn't it be simpler?

function StateCode($index){

  static $stateCode=array(1=> "AL",
  "AK","AZ","AR","CA","CO","CT","DE","FL","GA","HI",
  "ID","IL","IN","IA","KS","KY","LA","ME","MD","MA",
  "MI","MN","MS","MO","MT","NE","NV","NH","NJ","NM",
  "NY","NC","ND","OH","OK","OR","PA","RI","SC","SD",
  "TN","TX","UT","VT","VA","WA","WV","WI","WY");
  return $stateCode[$index];
}
function StateName($index){

  static $stateName=array(1=>"Alabama",
  "Alaska","Arizona","Arkansas","California","Colorado","Connecticut","Delaware","Florida","Georgia","Hawaii",
  "Idaho","Illinois","Indiana","Iowa","Kansas","Kentucky","Louisiana","Maine","Maryland","Massachusetts",
  "Michigan","Minnesota","Mississippi","Missouri","Montana","Nebraska","Nevada","New Hampshire",
  "New Jersey","New Mexico","New York","North Carolina","North Dakota","Ohio","Oklahoma","Oregon","Pennsylvania",
  "Rhode Island","South Carolina","South Dakota","Tennessee","Texas","Utah","Vermont","Virginia","Washington",
  "West Virginia","Wisconsin","Wyoming");
  return $stateName[$index];
}

...
for ($n=1;$n<=50;$n++) {
  $state=$getStateName($n);
  $scode=getStateCode($n);
  echo "<option value='$scode'";
  if ($scode== "AL") 
    echo " selected";
  echo ">$state\n";
  }

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