jenai tomaka wrote: > You can try like this, > > $row = stored data; > > and write the options like this > <option value="id" (id == $row ? "selected" : "") >xxxx</option> > > > Yuri Yarlei. > > <http://brasil.microsoft.com.br/IE8/mergulhe/?utm_source=MSN%3BHotmail&utm_medium=Tagline&utm_campaign=IE8> Yuri, I'm still "wet behind the ears" on this so I don't quite understand what you mean by "stored data" ; and what does the "id" (id==$row?"selected":"") mean? I get the idea that this might be translated into something in the code I have dreamed up - further down. echo "<option value=", $row['id'], ">", $row['category'], "</option><br />"; I suppose that I must add an if clause to insert the selected option for the categories that are relevant... Gentlemen, I have been diligently studying all this and have just returned my attention to the list, so I've read the replies/inputs and now comment: BTW, I had some problems with the multiple statement - it does not take any parameters; it must simply be stated multiple without quotes. Now, I was happy to learn that it is simpler to populate the insert new books page dynamically from the db. Much shorter & neater. It looks to me like the best solution for the edit page is close to what Yuri suggests. Since the edit page is very similar to the insert new books page, I merely need to populate the Select options box slightly differently. This is the code to populate the insert page: <select name="categoriesIN[]" multiple size="8"> <?php $sql = "SELECT * FROM categories"; if ( ( $results = mysql_query($sql, $db) ) !== false ) { while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results) ) { echo "<option value=", $row['id'], ">", $row['category'], "</option><br />"; } } ?> </select> The problem nowis to find a way to add a conditional clause above that will insert the option="selected" in the output. The input for this comes from: // do categories $sql = "SELECT id, category FROM categories, book_categories WHERE book_categories.bookID = $idIN && book_categories.categories_id = categories.id";; if ( ( $results = mysql_query($sql, $db) ) !== false ) { while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($results) ) { echo$row['id'], "<br />"; } } This may return any number of category ids so the problem is to figure out a way to pass the ids from the above code to the right ids in the first code above. How & what do I search to match the two ids? -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
