Thanks to Gerald, Werner, Gerlinde and Josh for help with the SELECT
form element. Gerald's was the simplest, most pragmatic solution,
but I ended up figuring out something that was a bit more like
Gerlinde and Josh suggested, but saving on a real 'if-then-else' loop
and doing it all in one
Print the current value as the first entry of the pulldown.
It will be in the pulldown twice, but so what?
Nelson Goforth wrote:
I have a Contact information page that draws from or writes to a table
[contact] and displays that information in an HTML form. There is a
field [type] that I
If I understand you correctly, here is my approach in php:
You look at the selected value first and store it in idSelected;
then you insert a condition and evaluate that condition in your
printf statement:
while ($row = mysql_fetch_object ($list)) {
$selected = $row-id ==
02, 2001 3:11 PM
To: Nelson Goforth
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SELECT form element with PHP/MySQL
Print the current value as the first entry of the pulldown.
It will be in the pulldown twice, but so what?
Nelson Goforth wrote:
I have a Contact information page that draws from or writes