At 10:46 -0800 12/14/01, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
>At the risk of sounding like a browser-snob...
>
>The quotes probably don't matter in IE, but that's primarily IE
>allows (and, in my opinion, encourages) bad coding practices.
>
>Your "echo" command really ought to look like this:
>
>echo "" .
At the risk of sounding like a browser-snob...
The quotes probably don't matter in IE, but that's primarily IE allows
(and, in my opinion, encourages) bad coding practices.
Your "echo" command really ought to look like this:
echo "" . $row["name"] .
"\n";
Many coders even forget to put in the
also, to get existing vals to show in the select as default,
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$selected=($row["ID"]==$ID)?"selected":"";
echo "" . $row["name"] .
"\n";
}
the value can be in single quotes also, altho i dont think quotes matter
unless you use opera or some other wierdass b
> I also prefer to use printf(" so it has the value in
> quotes - just a fussy html thing i do though.
If you like your code to be legible in a browser's 'View Source' function
(which can sometimes be helpful for debugging), you can also add a newline
"\n" character to the end of each option line
yep, that's basically what i use for this sort of thing - it's a nice short
simple function, and works a treat. Obviously if you'd rather be passing the
actual colour name to the next step, you use printf("%s", $myrow["colorname"], $myrow["colorname"]);
I also prefer to use printf(" so it has the
or alternatively, you can download a drop down box populating class from
http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/
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From: "Matthew Crouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 6:57 AM
Subject: [PHP-DB] Re: Dynamically populating a drop
