Minipulating Combo Box Values

[ffdave]

I am working on a form and would like to minipulate the selected list item in a combo box. I am taking values from a record in MySQL and filling in form fields. Can I access the combo box like in JavaScript where you can do it like the following:

document.myform.combo1.value="myvalue"

or do I have to code the whole combobox in php like the following (I would really like to avoid it): *HTML Tags May Be A Little Off - Example Only.

echo("<select name=/"emotion/">");
echo("<option><selected>happy</selected></option>");
echo("<option>sad</option>");
echo("<option>happy</option>");

Any advice?

[msk_1980]

You wont have access to the combo box object from php, you need to use the second option i.e code the whole combo in php but you can use a loop to generate the combo options. It reduces the code and is efficient.

[madwormer2]

It is in fact possible to do it like javascript

Look into using the http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.dom.php functions.