[lordy]

Hi all,

I'm currently fumbling my way through php, I've become stuck on what I _believe_ is quite a simple matter.

I currently have populated a combobox (location) with values from a table like so:

-->select id="location" name="location"><?php $editprop->Move(0);while ( !$editprop->EOF ) { echo "<option value=\"" . $editprop->fields["suburb"] . "\">" . $editprop->fields["suburb"]. "</option>";$editprop->MoveNext(); } ?></select>

now that that is done, I want to get the value of a specific record from the table and have that as the default selected suburb.

I was hoping this would do the trick:

<option SELECTED value=\"" . $editprop->fields["location"] . "\">" . $editprop->fields["location"]. "</option>

Now, looking at it, I think it would add the value onto the current combobox list, is that correct? I don't actually want that to happen, I just want to get the value and select it (the value would already be in the combobox from the former statement)

So not only do I not know how to do specifically what I want, but this way doesn't work either, I get an error message:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ']' in /var/www/html/tester.php on line 151

I believe this to be because of simple placement of the two statements. I put the latter statement directly after the first so in all, it looks like this:

--><select id="location" name="location"><?php $editprop->Move(0);while ( !$editprop->EOF ) { echo "<option value=\"" . $editprop->fields["suburb"] . "\">" . $editprop->fields["suburb"]. "</option>";$editprop->MoveNext(); } ?></select><option SELECTED value=\"" . $editprop->fields["location"] . "\">" . $editprop->fields["location"]. "</option>

Note:
I also tried putting the second option statement within the select tags, after the "?>" just before "</select>". This also produced the same error. What am I missing?

So my questions:
How do I get the value and select it from the list?
Where do I place the statement to do that?

If anyone could help that would be great, I have been at this off and on for the past couple of days and all I have managed so far is failure after failure

Any ideas?

Thanks
lordy

[lordy]

not to bump this or anything, but does anyone know what i mean? am I not being clear enough?

[NeverMind]

show us line 151!
and to access the selected elemented from the dropdown menu you simply have to use $_POST['name_of_select']
so if you had:

Code:

<select name="location" size="1">
  <option></option>
  ....
</select>

you will use $_POST['location'] to access the value after the form has been submitted.

[lordy]

I'm sorry, either I have misunderstood you or you have misunderstood me.

I don't actually need to get the value after the form has been submitted. What I need is to make the combobox have the value of "location" from my $editprop query set as default.

But I also need to have the values from "suburb" from my $editprop query to be displayed as other options in the combobox.

The problem is that if I just add them all, a suburb will appear twice. I want to be able to make sure the suburb only appears once. "location" is selected from one of the "suburb" values normally, so that's why a value will appear twice.

I'm assuming there is a way to compare values and make it so I don't add one, but how would I do that? Just a hint would do if you don't want to think about it

That way I could go and read up a little on it.

Thanks!