Problem with formatting drop down

[genista]

Hi all,

No matter what i try I cannot seem to get the following code right. What you see bwlo outputs a drop down box with no options, moving the html about, puts one of the options in but leaves the other out. Hopefully this is very simple!:

	echo "Please select rate type:</td><td><select size=\"1\" name=\"test\"";



if( isset($_POST['test']) and $_POST['test'] == "Approximate Charge")  

    echo 'selected="selected"'; 
if( isset($_POST['test']) and $_POST['test'] == "Per Hour")  

    echo 'selected="selected"';   

	echo "<option value=\"Approximate Charge\"</option>
	<option value=\"Per Hour Charge\"</option>	
 </select></tr></td>
<tr><td>&nbsp;</tr></td>";

Any help much appreciated,

Thanks,

G

[Weedpacket]

And the problem is.....?

Well, multiple problems, really. No <select> tag; <option> tags that are not closed; trying to echo tag attributes at random places in the code and hoping they'll magically appear in the right place...

[genista]

The drop down box is empty when I have two possible options that should be inside it - approximate charge and per hour.

[aspekt9]

Try something like this:

	$display .= '<select>';
foreach(array('Approximate Charge', 'Per Hour') as $value)
{
   $selected = ($_POST['test'] == $value) ? ' selected="selected"' : '';
   $display .= "<option value='$value'$selected>$value</option>\n";
} 
		$display .= '</select>';
		return $display;

[genista]

Ok, excuse me for being a noob, here is what I have now, suffice to say that the script stops after this, ie nothing else is displayed on my browser and the drop down is still empty.

	echo "Please select rate type:</td><td><select size=\"1\" name=\"test\"";
	$display .= '<select>';
foreach(array('Approximate Charge', 'Per Hour') as $value)
{
$selected = ($_POST['test'] == $value) ? ' selected="selected"' : '';
$display .= "<option value='$value'$selected>$value</option>\n";
} 
$display .= '</select>';
return $display;

Thanks for your patience!

G

[aspekt9]

    $display .= "Please select rate type:";
    $display .= '<select size="1" name="test">';
foreach(array('Approximate Charge', 'Per Hour') as $value)
{
$selected = ($_POST['test'] == $value) ? ' selected="selected"' : '';
$display .= "<option value='$value'$selected>$value</option>\n";
}
$display .= '</select>';
echo $display;

[genista]

ok, thats great except for when the page first loads and the user hasn't submitted data, you get an undefined index on 'display' from this line: $display .= "Please select rate type:";

and on 'test' from this line: $selected = ($_POST['test'] == $value) ? ' selected="selected"' : '';

I assume that I will need to use 'isset,' when I tried

[B]	  if(isset($_POST['submit']))   

{ [/B]
$display .= "Please select rate type:"; 
    $display .= '<select size="1" name="hairuptype">'; 
foreach(array('Approximate Charge', 'Per Hour') as $value) 
{ 
$selected = ($_POST['hairuptype'] == $value) ? ' selected="selected"' : ''; 
$display .= "<option value='$value'$selected>$value</option>\n"; 
} 
$display .= '</select>'; 
echo $display; 

The problem here was that when the page starts it is not set so the drop down does not appear....

Thanks,

G

[NogDog]

$selected = (isset($_POST['hairuptype'] && $_POST['hairuptype'] == $value) ? 
      ' selected="selected"' : '';