drop down selection based on last

[yannis]

I have a drop down menu populated dynamically from a table and when the user selects a choice the page reloads fine and all the data come up correctly but the drop down menu defaults in the first choice. I would like after every selection the menu to show that last selection.
Any ideas how to do that guys?

[intenz]

You have to compare the chosen value in the DB to the items when you're looping through all the items in the DB and printing them out. If there's a match, you add "selected" in the <option>

[hoffmeister]

this is what i have used before

<select name=search_in>
	<option value=all>All Products</option>
	<option <?php if($search_in_type=='title') echo 'selected ';?>value=title>Title</option>
	<option <?php if($search_in_type=='description') echo 'selected ';?>value=description>description</option>
</select>

let me know if you need some explaining

[LiamBailey]

Hi,

On your example of what you have used before...

You need curly brakets for the action of an if argument

<?
if ($missed_curlies == "false")
{
echo "This will work";
}
elseif ($missed_curlies == "true")
echo "This won't work";
?>

[bradgrafelman]

LiamBailey wrote:

You need curly brakets for the action of an if argument

Actually, you don't; you can omit them for single-statement if()'s as in hoffmeister's example. This allows for more compact-looking code.

[LiamBailey]

News to me, sorry hoffmeister