Re: Modifying data in forms with values

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Murray @ PlanetThoughtful wrote:
I have to create registration forms all the time for people in the office
and
what I keep running into is that I need a way for when they edit a field
that
the drop-down list of choices is automatically set for the right now.

I have 100+ counties in one list, but I don't want to write 100+ if
statements
for checking to see if the value of $county equals the value of the field
I am
drop down choice.

Anyone have some quick solutions?

I have radio buttons as well, but going to use a drop-down list for the
editing
pages to make it all simple.


Hi Robert,

As a suggestion, why not put your counties in an array (are you taking them
from a recordset? If so, same idea applies) and use foreach() to iterate
through the array, building the select list. When $county equals the current
value of the array, include " SELECTED" in the select HTML you are building.
One if statement should handle the situation nicely.

Much warmth,

Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
---
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Here is an example of what Murray suggested. $sort_options is an array [list]of counties in your case.

$report .=
"<div style=\"font-weight:bold; margin-top:2em\">Sort the index by:
<select name=\"sort_by\">\n";

	$sort_by= foo;

	foreach($sort_options as $option=> $label){
	
		$sel=($option== $sort_by)? 'SELECTED' : '';
		$report .=  "<option value=\"$option\" $sel>$label</option>\n";
	}//end foreach
$report .= "</select>\n";

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