Re: Re: Generating an option list with a default

On 02/11/2014 05:59 AM, Jim Giner wrote:

On 1/25/2014 3:45 PM, Jennifer wrote:

Hello all,

    We have a PHP form with a static <option> list, where people can request

a product sample. http://www.superiorshelving.com/mfg/aigner/sample.php

    There are links on multiple pages that call this page.  I would like to

send a different default option to that form from each of those pages so that the customer doesn't have to pop-up the list to choose it manually. Of course, if they go to that form directly, there shouldn't be a default.

    What would be the best way to handle this?  I'm thinking to have code

generate the list with the default undefined, and then have the links to that page pass a variable to the form to set a default. Does that sound like it would work?

    Any other ideas are appreciated!

Thank you, Jenni

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I had your thought in mind halfway thru your question. Of course that's the way to do it. So simple, flexible and easily implemented. Set a session var that your central piece of code checks as it builds the select list and you're all set.

I see one issue with doing it this way. If a person visited a page that he didn't want to have a default for the form value, then he would have empty that session variable. So, not only are you setting a variable on each page you want it done on, you need to make sure that variable is erased/emptied on every page load that should not have a default. That to me is a headache waiting to happen. -- Jim Lucas http://www.cmsws.com/ http://www.cmsws.com/examples/