Re: checkboxes and selection lists

If you have hundred thousand elements for example if you rob up for some country select within tierce code- I thinks doing like the following is better echo "<select> <option>a <option>b ... <option>zz <option selected>$value </option> </select>" ; And I don't care if it could have 2 same value in the select case... And if there aren't many value, I think the following sounds better: echo " <SELECT CLASS=select NAME=qual> <OPTION ".($qual==A?" SELECTED":"").">A <OPTION ".($qual==B?" SELECTED":"").">B <OPTION ".($qual==C?" SELECTED":"")." >C</OPTION> </SELECT>" ; ----- Original Message ----- From: <marco_bleeker@hetnet.nl> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 5:06 PM Subject: [PHP] checkboxes and selection lists Hi, as a beginner I find the way you declare variables through HTML-forms quite straightforward. But the reverse, to put the same variables back into a form field is not so obvious for selection lists and checkboxes. Would for instance this be the best way: <SELECT CLASS="select" NAME="qual"> <OPTION VALUE="A" <?=if($qual=='A'){return 'SELECTED'}?>>A</OPTION> <OPTION VALUE="B" <?=if($qual=='B'){return 'SELECTED'}?>>B</OPTION> <OPTION VALUE="C" <?=if($qual=='C'){return 'SELECTED'}?>>C</OPTION> </SELECT> or would there be something more elegant? Thanks, Marco ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Internet wordt pas leuk als je mee kunt doen. Ga naar http://www.hetnet.nl -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php