Re: selected option values not being captured by form processing software

your checking the value every time you loop so that you can see if that value is checked or not. Im sure Ive missunderstood your question... please email. <?php function selected($val_1, $val_2) { if ($val_1 == $val_2) return ' selected '; else return; } include_once('database_class.egn'); $result = $database->select_array('', 'country', ''); echo " <form method='post' action='$PHP_SELF'> <select name='country'> "; foreach($result as $pos => $val) { $this_country = $val['country']; echo " <option value='$this_country'". selected(@$country, $this_country) ..">$this_country "; } echo " </select> <input type='submit' name='done' value='Submit'> </form> "; ?> -- Chris Lee Mediawaveonline.com ph. 250.377.1095 ph. 250.376.2690 fx. 250.554.1120 lee@mediawaveonline.com "Nicole Lallande" <mipana@mipana.com> wrote in message news:3AAE5A92.8295BE0F@mipana.com... Hi, Working on a code that uses a select/option field. All my other fields are passing through to the form processing software just fine. Meloni's PHP Essentials does this funky thing, declaring each function value as selected or not although she shows it with the individual values not with variable - and I don't understand why she is doing that - I don't see it anywhere else. What I do know is whether I try her if_else selected method or without, my value is not being passed through http. echo "<td width=\"550\" align=\"left\"><select name=\"select_product\">"; echo "<option value=\"\">Cat. ID No? Description Pkg Size Price</option>"; while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $catid[] = $row["Cat_ID"]; } for ($i=0; $i < sizeof($catid); $i++) { $cat = $catid[$i]; if($select_product =="cat") { echo "<option value=\"$cat\" selected>$cat</option>"; } else { echo "<option value=\"$cat\">$cat</option>"; } Thanks, Nicole -- ######################## Nicole Lallande nicole@nmlconsulting.com 760.753.6766 ######################## -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net