RE:AGAIN [PHP] Forms, ListBoxes, Validating Errors.

-----Original Message----- From: Richard Davey [mailto:rich@launchcode.co.uk] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 6:43 AM To: Kacey A. Murphy Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Forms, ListBoxes, Validating Errors. Hello Kacey, Friday, January 16, 2004, 11:33:22 AM, you wrote: KAM> What I have is an issue with posting forms with Dynamic ListBoxes. KAM> What happens is when you fill the form out, and hit submit, it KAM> validates the form .. if there is a required field not filled out, it KAM> comes back and gives an error. All the textfields have all the KAM> information and the Static ListBoxes have all the information they KAM> filled out... But if the user KAM> selected a STATE (which is pulled dynamically) it will reset this box KAM> to the default setting. RD > It will reset it when the page reloads with the error message, yes? KAM> function build_states_tree(&$output, &$preselected) { RD > You already have the preselected variable in your function, so why not RD > just pass in whatever the user previously selected back to it again? RD > (i.e. over-ride whatever the initial preselected was?) ---------------- I think that makes sense I will tweak the code for a little bit to see what comes of it. Just wasn't quite sure how to make the code correctly and efficiently. Thanks so much for the quick respons.