Put the correct OPTION in the Drop down box?

djalecc

Hello Peeps 🙂

I've had the need to add another option in to one of my drop down boxes, everything seems to work ok, but now when I load a page with the NEW option I've added it does not display the correct DROP DOWN box that was INPUT in the form.

Before I changed it, the code that worked was this, this gave 2 options either PAID or PENDING

 $fi[36]!='Received' ? $f36n='selected' : $f36y='selected';
$f[36]='<SELECT NAME="fi[36]"> <option '.$f36y.'>Received</option> <option '.$f36n.'>Pending</option></SELECT>';

I have added a new OPTION of WRITTEN OFF

 
$fi[36]!='Received' ? $f36n='selected' : $f36y='selected';
$f[36]='<SELECT NAME="fi[36]"> <option '.$f36y.'>Received</option> <option '.$f36w.'>Written Off</option> <option '.$f36n.'>Pending</option></SELECT>';

But when I load the form for any job that has been written off to edit it, the option selected is displayed as 'Pending' so I have to re-select the WRITTEN OFF value every time I go in to the form to edit it.

While this is ok to a point, and I know to do it. Other users in a hurry will probably just hit the 'send' button and the option will be saved as 'pending' thus the job will now be listed as 'pending'

When I edit the form, if the value is WRITTEN OFF, how do I make it put that value in as WRITTEN OFF instead of 'pending'

If the value is PENDING it works OK, if the value is PAID it works OK 🙂

I'm sure I'm missing something simple here! 😕

dbchip2000

I would try this coding:

$options=array("Received", "Written Off", "Pending");
$f[36]='<SELECT NAME="fi[36]">';
while (list( , $option)=each($options)) {
     $f[36].='<option'.(($fi[36]==$option) ? ' selected="selected"' : '').'>'.$option.'</option>';
}
$f[36].='</select>';

Or just change your own coding to account for the following:

$fi[36]!='Received' ? $f36n='selected' : $f36y='selected';

The statement doesn't account for "Written Off", because the condition says $fi[36] is not Received (true for both Pending and Written Off) and then Pending gets selected

 -Danny