selected value

[nikko50]

Hi all🙂 Trying to get the below to have the SELECTED value chosen but it is not working. What am I doing wrong?

while ( $buyerline= mysql_fetch_array($getresult, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{

print "<option value='$buyerline[id]'".($buyerline[id]=='$buyer'?' SELECTED':'').">$buyerline[buyer]</option>\n";
}
print '</select>'

[bpat1434]

Variables do not need quotes around them. Single quotes don't allow for the parser to parse the variable. So your code should be:

print "<option value='".$buyerline['id']."'".($buyerline['id']==$buyer)?' SELECTED':'').">".$buyerline['buyer']."</option>\n";

[nikko50]

Getting a parse error "Unexpected ')'. Tracy🙂

while ( $buyerline= mysql_fetch_array($getresult, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{

print "<option value='".$buyerline['id']."'".($buyerline['id']==$buyer)?' SELECTED':'').">".$buyerline['buyer']."</option>\n";
}

[bpat1434]

remove the ")" after "SELECTED':''.... that should do it...

[nikko50]

Now I get nothing in the drop list🙁
while ( $buyerline= mysql_fetch_array($getresult, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
print "<option value='".$buyerline['id']."'".($buyerline['id']==$buyer)?' SELECTED':''.">".$buyerline['buyer']."</option>\n";
}

[bpat1434]

Oh yeah... precedence rule....

while($buyerline = mysql_fetch_array($getresult))
{
  print '<option value="'.$buyerline['id'].'"'.(($buyerline['id']==$buyer)?' SELECTED':'').'>'.$buyerline['buyer'].'</option>';
}

[nikko50]

Thanks so much. Just wondering if you can't use ternary with concatenation what is in the below function. Are those ternaries in the function???
function state_list($sel ='')
{
echo "<option value='AL'".($sel=='AL'?' selected':'').">Alabama</option>\n";
echo "<option value='AK'".($sel=='AK'?' selected':'').">Alaska</option>\n";
echo "<option value='AZ'".($sel=='AZ'?' selected':'').">Arizona</option>\n";
echo "<option value='AR'".($sel=='AR'?' selected':'').">Arkansas</option>\n";
echo "<option value='CA'".($sel=='CA'?' selected':'').">California</option>\n";
echo "<option value='CO'".($sel=='CO'?' selected':'').">Colorado</option>\n";

}

[nikko50]

Now I get it! Thanks so much for all your help