Retain Drop Down Box Selected Value

[vjmehra]

I completely appreciate this has been asked a million times before, but I have not got a single code example to work, my code is as follows:

<?php
$cat_array=get_results("call sp_teams($club_id);");
foreach ($cat_array as $thiscat) {
echo "<option value='".$thiscat['team_id']."'";
echo ' selected="selected">'.$thiscat['team_name']."</option>";}?>

The drop down functions correctly and I am able to display the team_id field as text using:

echo "combo box data is ". $_GET['team_id'];

However I have not found a way of retaining the drop down value in the drop down box, the selected="selected" statement appears to do nothing.

Any ideas?

[Kudose]

$select = (!empty($_GET['team_id']) && ctype_digit($_GET['team_id']) ? $_GET['team_id'] : '';
foreach($cat_array as $thiscat){
  echo '<option value="'.$thiscat['team_id'].'"';
  if($select == $thiscat['team_id'])
    echo ' selected="selected"';
  echo '>'.$thiscat['team_name'].'</option>';
}

edit

I see $_GET['team_id'] now ... don't know why I didn't before.

[devinemke]

foreach ($cat_array as $thiscat)
{
	echo '<option value="' . $thiscat['team_id'] . '"';
	if (isset($_GET['team_id']) && $_GET['team_id'] == $thiscat['team_id']) {echo ' selected';}
	echo '>' . $thiscat['team_name'] . '</option>';
}

[vjmehra]

devinemke- Thanks for posting, but when I use your code, I just get the following error:

Parse error: parse error in C:\xampp\htdocs\Fixtures\Results.php on line 46

[vjmehra]

Kudose- I am pulling in the values from an SQL query (the stored procedure is called sp_teams), does that help, or am I misunderstanding what you're asking?

[Kudose]

I misread your post. I updated the code.

[vjmehra]

Ah great, many thanks to both of you, have now got both your samples working!

Much appreciated.