Passing variable to OPTION VALUE statement

[imimin]

Can I please get some help here?

When I try this:

                <?php
                    $item_selected_style = $_GET['item_selected_style'];


                echo "Garment Style:";
                <SELECT NAME=custom10 SIZE=1>;
                echo 
                "<OPTION SELECTED="SELECTED" VALUE="$item_selected_style">"$item_selected_style"</OPTION>
                <OPTION VALUE="Goucho Pants w/Elastic Waist">Goucho Pants w/Elastic Waist</OPTION>
                <OPTION VALUE="Goucho Pants w/Draw String">Goucho Pants w/Draw String</OPTION>
                <OPTION VALUE="Poncho w/Hood">Poncho w/Hood</OPTION>
                <OPTION VALUE="Poncho without Hood">Poncho without Hood</OPTION>
                <OPTION VALUE="Baby Bunting">Baby Bunting</OPTION>
                <OPTION VALUE="Romper">Romper</OPTION>";
                </SELECT><BR>;
                ?>

It does NOT work. I get the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '<' in /homepages/27/d120150310/htdocs/poj/poj_order_form.php on line 69

Thank you!

[devinemke]

<?php
$item_selected_style = $_GET['item_selected_style'];

echo 'Garment Style:
<SELECT NAME="custom10" SIZE="1">
<OPTION SELECTED="SELECTED" VALUE="' . $item_selected_style . '">' . $item_selected_style . '</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="Goucho Pants w/Elastic Waist">Goucho Pants w/Elastic Waist</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="Goucho Pants w/Draw String">Goucho Pants w/Draw String</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="Poncho w/Hood">Poncho w/Hood</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="Poncho without Hood">Poncho without Hood</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="Baby Bunting">Baby Bunting</OPTION>
<OPTION VALUE="Romper">Romper</OPTION>";
</SELECT>
';
?>

[bradgrafelman]

In other words, you can't just throw some random HTML into the middle of PHP code and expect PHP to know what to do with it. Another alternative is to escape out of PHP:

	<OPTION SELECTED="SELECTED" VALUE="<?php echo $_GET['item_selected_style'] ?>"><?php echo $_GET['item_selected_style'] ?></OPTION>
	<OPTION VALUE="Goucho Pants w/Elastic Waist">Goucho Pants w/Elastic Waist</OPTION>
	<OPTION VALUE="Goucho Pants w/Draw String">Goucho Pants w/Draw String</OPTION>
	<OPTION VALUE="Poncho w/Hood">Poncho w/Hood</OPTION>
	<OPTION VALUE="Poncho without Hood">Poncho without Hood</OPTION>
	<OPTION VALUE="Baby Bunting">Baby Bunting</OPTION>
	<OPTION VALUE="Romper">Romper</OPTION>
	</SELECT><BR>

Otherwise, note that devinemke not only included the HTML code inside the echo'd string but he also used a period, the concatenation operator (see: [man]language.operators.string[/man]), to join string pieces together.

EDIT: Also, when posting PHP code, please use the board's [noparse]

[/noparse] bbcode tags as they make your code much easier to read and analyze.