On Sunday 12 December 2004 19:32, Stuart Felenstein wrote: > > Did you mockup some test HTML in a wysisyg editor as > > suggested? > > Yep like this : > > <select name="select" size="10" multiple> > <option value="1" <?php if (!(strcmp(1, > "None"))) {echo "SELECTED";} ?>>Black</option> Um, your HTML wysiwyg editor can insert PHP code for you? The object of the exercise is to see what properly constructed HTML for displaying "multiselect dropdown boxes with pre-selected values" look like so you can try and reproduce it using PHP. If the above code does that then fine (I don't care to check). > //Attempt, problems with parsing errors: > > <select name="Ind[]" size="8" multiple="multiple" > id="Ind[]" > > <?php > while($row = mysql_fetch_array($inds, MYSQL_BOTH)) { > echo '<option value="'.$row['CareerIDs'].'">'; > if (!(strcmp($row_rsInd['CareerIDs'], '$Ind'))); Why do you always get your IF clauses wrong (look at back at your previous posts). There should not be a semi-colon there. Read manual > Language Reference (thoroughly, until you can recite it back to front (or alternatively learn to refer to it when you get syntax (parsing) errors instead of asking the list)). > Close but no cigar. Since $Ind is already imploded my > thinking is it need not be incremented in the echo > statement ? You tell me, print_r() and var_dump() it before you use it and decide whether it is correct. One final thing: '$Ind' is not the same as "$Ind". -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure gradient to exactly the point of most pressure. es a -- Milt Barber */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php