Select Box trouble

[wraygun]

Hi all,

I've googled until my fingers hurt, searched the threads here, but I'm not finding what I'm looking for.

I have a Select Box populated:

<select name="selectprimarygenre" id="selectprimarygenre" dir="ltr">
       <option selected>Acoustic</option>
       <option>Alternative</option>
       <option>Ambient</option>
       <option>Beats-N-Loops</option>
        <option>Blues</option>
</select>

I would like to dynamically select one of the items from the list based on data I will collect from another page.

Let's say for instance I've determined that I need 'Ambient' selected when the user gets to the page. I'm also using php, so I can echo the appropriate HTML code if I can just determine what that is. I greatly appreciate any pointers or tips.

Harold

***You can't change your past, but you can change your future***

 

[Vragabond]

Any pointers and tips would have to come from PHP forum, since HTML is just a markup language and cannot add any logic to the script. You would simply echo [tt]selected="selected"[/tt] next to the option you have determined to be the right one.

 

[Olavxxx]

You say your having the list populated.
If it's populated within a loop, you simply check:

if ($_GET['selectprimarygenre'] == $row['value']){
    "<option selected=\"selected\">{$row['value']}</option>\n";
  }
else {
    "echo <option>{$row['value']</}</option>\n";
  }

If the list never changes, I would not regenerate it on each load, I would rather do a dirty add at the top:

<select name="selectprimarygenre" id="selectprimarygenre" dir="ltr">
<?php
if (isset($_GET['selectprimarygenre'])) {
echo "       <option selected=\"selected\">[{$_GET['selectprimarygenre']}]</option>\n";
}
?>
       <option>Acoustic</option>
       <option>Alternative</option>
       <option>Ambient</option>
       <option>Beats-N-Loops</option>
       <option>Blues</option>
</select>

good luck!

Olav Alexander Mjelde

http://www.volvo-power.net

Admin & Webmaster

 

[wraygun]

The dirty add was perfect. Thank you so much! This helped tremendously.

Harold

***You can't change your past, but you can change your future***