how to do this

chinesealbert

I have a form:

<form method="POST" action=".">
<p>the select<select size="1" name="ccha" >
<option selected>aa</option>
<option>bb</option>
<option>cc</option>
<option>dd</option>
 
</select></p>
</form>

Now I want to get $ccha from my database,and if $ccha is "bb" not "aa",i want the form is

<form method="POST" action=".">
<p>the select<select size="1" name="ccha" >
<option >aa</option>
<option selected>bb</option>
<option>cc</option>
<option>dd</option>
 
</select></p>
</form>

of course ,if $ccha is "cc" ,i want the form is : <option selected> cc </option>
how to do this by php

Anon

Just get php to output the select tag and its options using "echo" or "print", and add the 'selected' modifier to the appropriate option.

In very simple terms:

echo "<option";
if ($ccha == "aa") echo " selected";
echo ">aa</option>";

... and so on.

smarlowe

You're probably looking for something like this:

$option="cc"; # This would come from a database or something like that.

<form method="POST" action=".">
<p>the select<select size="1" name="ccha" >
<?
$options=array("aa","bb","cc","dd");
for ($i=0;$i<count($options);$i++){
print "<option value=".$options[$i];
if ($option=$options[$i]) print " SELECTED";
print ">".$options[$i]."</option>\n";
}
?>
</select></p>
</form>

dogdog

Thanks Scott, I was also looking for those codes :-)