Issues with "Remembering the selected option of dropdown in PHP"

[g_pmattoo]

Here is what i tried but it is not working. Any clue why or anyone has any code snippets to pass across. Also the fields in this

form are transported to an xml and i get the index value(0,1,2 or 3) of selected option in test dropdown rather than it's

value(No,abc,xyz or efg)

$option = array(0 => 'No', 1 => 'abc', 2 => 'xyz', 3 => 'efg'); 
        $selected = (isset($_POST['test']) && intval($_POST['test']) < 4) ? $_POST['test'] : ''; //index of dropdown
        echo "<select name=\"test\">\n"; 
        echo createOptionFromArray($option,$selected); 
        echo "</select>\n";  


   function createOptionFromArray($myArray,$selected) { 
   if(!is_array($myArray)) { 
        return false; 
    } 
    $returned = $select = ''; 
    foreach($myArray as $key => $value) { 
        if($selected == $key) { 
            $select = ' selected'; 
        } 
        $returned .= "<option value=\"$key\"$select>$value</option>"; 
        $select = ''; 
    } 
    return $returned; 
}

[cahva]

Well if you want the value why use $key in the value? 🙂

$returned .= "<option value=\"$value\"$select>$value</option>";

[NogDog]

If you want me to take the time to read and answer your posts, please take the time to learn how to use this forum, in particular: PHP bbcode tag

[g_pmattoo]

@: Thanks! That was a nice catch. That took care of my smaller problem but the bigger one is still there🙁

@: I didn't knew about that and have made the updates now.

[g_pmattoo]

Thanks. Everything worked fine.