Echo drop down value from this code

genista

Hi I have a drop down that submits a county. The issue I have is that when I use the code in a page that is an update details type page it doesn't displaythe row from the database even though there is one in there:

  <p>County: 
    <select size="1" name="county"
  <option value="Aberdeenshire" <?php if (isset($_POST['county']) and $_POST['county'] == "Aberdeenshire") echo "selected"?>>Aberdeenshire</option>
<option value="Anglesey" <?php if (isset($_POST['county']) and $_POST['county'] == "Anglesey") echo "selected"?>>Anglesey</option>
<option value="Angus" <?php if (isset($_POST['county']) and $_POST['county'] == "Angus") echo "selected"?>>Angus</option>
<option value="Argyll" <?php if (isset($_POST['county']) and $_POST['county'] == "Argyll") echo "selected"?>>Argyll</option>
<option value="Avon" <?php if (isset($_POST['county']) and $_POST['county'] == "Avon") echo "selected"?>>Avon</option>
</select></P>
	<P>&nbsp;</P>

How do I get the county to be displayed when the page is loaded?

Thanks,

sid

???

do you mean the formhandler generated page? do you mean when the page reloads? do you mean that you save the data in a db and then can't retrieve it correctly? are you using "post" as your form method or is it maybe "get"?

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genista

Hi,

This particular page is a place where a user can look at their personal details and then make amendments to it,ie they have moved house and now need to change ther county. The issue I am having is getting the drop down to display the county from the database while still allowing the county to be updated in the database. At the moment it is set to POST in order to post back, but of course therte is the get element of 'getting' the original county as set in the database.

If that makes sense......

sid

if the information of which country should be selected is coming from the database, verifying agains $_POST['country'] is most likely not going to result in a TRUE value. can you post some code?