question about select tag

[sudhakararaog]

i have a register.php and confirmregister.php file. in the first file the user fills a registeration form and in the second page they can review what they

entered in the first page and then confirm their registration. in the register.php a user can select their area code for the phone number from a drop down

<select name="pcontactnumber">
<option value="09"> <option value="07"> <option value="06">
</select>

now in the confirmregister.php file when i use the following code whatever the user selects as the area code the confirm.php file displays the area code in a

drop down
<select name="pcontactnumber">
<option SELECTED value="09"><?php echo $pcontactnumber; ?></option>
<option SELECTED value="07"><?php echo $pcontactnumber; ?></option>
<option SELECTED value="06"><?php echo $pcontactnumber; ?></option>
</select>

however what i have noticed is in the confirmregister.php page if i again click on this select menu to lets say change the area code, the drop down consists

of a list of options with the number that was choosen in the register.php page as in the source code in confirmregister.php would look like

<select name="pcontactnumber">
<option SELECTED value="09">09</option>
<option SELECTED value="07">09</option>
<option SELECTED value="06">09</option>
</select> assuming 09 was selected in the register.php page.

please advice how i can display the list as it is in the register.php file without the same number repeating in confirmregister.php

thanks.

[_uk_stuff]

I think it would make more sense to wrap you confirmregister select within a while loop. The approach would be different depending on what possible pcontactnumbers are available i.e.

If they are sequential 5,6,7,8,9 ... I would use a while loop with an incrementing counter;

$counter = 5;
echo "<SELECT NAME='pcontactnumber'>";
while ( $counter < 9 )
{
if ( $counter == $pcontactnumber )
echo "<OPTION VALUE='$counter' SELECTED>$counter</OPTION>";
else
echo "<OPTION VALUE='$counter'>$counter</OPTION>";
}
echo "</SELECT>";

If the possible codes are not sequential but user defined I would use an array i.e.

$ContactNumber_arr = array('05','10','45','16','07','98','09');
echo "<SELECT NAME='pcontactnumber'>";
foreach ( $ContactNumber_arr as $counter )
{
if ( $counter == $pcontactnumber )
echo "<OPTION VALUE='$counter' SELECTED>$counter</OPTION>";
else
echo "<OPTION VALUE='$counter'>$counter</OPTION>";
}
echo "</SELECT>";

This will then construct the SELECT list and only apply the SELECTED element to the corresponding OPTION. Also it will present the correct values alongside the OPTIONS within the list and not duplicate the original $pcontactnumber

[dougal85]

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