Rather than repeating all that code, I suggest the following:
<select name="type" id="type>
<option value="0">-- select type --</option>
<option value="meeting" <?php echo (isset($_POST['hidSubmit'] &&
$_POST['hidSubmit'] == TRUE && $_POST['type'] == "meeting") ?
"selected" : '' ?>
<option value="event" <?php echo (isset($_POST['hidSubmit'] &&
$_POST['hidSubmit'] == TRUE && $_POST['type'] == "event") ?
"selected" : '' ?>
</select>
For a month selector, try:
<?php
// assume current month number is in $curr_month
$months = array(1 => "January", "February", "March", "April",
"May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November",
"December"); // will create an array of month names, with a starting
base of 1 (instead of zero)
echo "<select name=\"month\" id=\"month\">\n";
foreach ($months as $m => $mname) {
echo "<option value=\"$m\"";
if ($curr_month == $m) echo " selected ";
echo ">$mname</option>\n";
}
echo "</select>\n";
?>
There are other possiblities as well. One time, I didn't want to
actually store the month names, perhaps allowing them to be localized.
Instead I used strftime, which will return appropriate names based on
locale:
<?php
// assume current month number is in $curr_month
echo "<select name=\"month\" id=\"month\">\n";
for ($m = 1; $m <= 12; $m++) {
echo "<option value=\"$m\"";
if ($curr_month == $m) echo " selected ";
echo ">";
$mname = strftime("%B", 0,0,0,2010, $m, 1); // time, year and day
don't matter, all we're after is the appropriate month name set in the
locale
echo $mname;
echo "</option>\n";
}
echo "</select>\n";
?>
On Sep 11, 2010, at 8:49 AM, Jason Pruim wrote:
Hey everyone!
Hope you are having a great weekend, and I'm hoping someone might be
coherent enough to help me find a more elegant solution to a problem
that I have...
I have a form for submitting an event to a website, and if the form
is not submitted successfully (such as they didn't fill out a
required field) I want it to redisplay the form with inline errors
as to what happened and display the values they selected...
I have a working solution but was hoping for something a little more
elegant. And something that would work better for a month selector
as well... Here is the relevant code that I have that works:
<?PHP
if ($_POST['hidSubmit'] ==TRUE & $_POST['type'] == "meeting"):
echo <<<HTML
<select name="type" id="type">
<option value="0">-- select type --</option>
<option value="meeting" selected>Meeting</option>
<option value="event" >Event</option>
</select>
HTML;
elseif ($_POST['hidSubmit'] == TRUE & $_POST['type'] == "event"):
//if ($_POST['hidSubmit'] == TRUE & $_POST['type'] == "event") {
echo <<<HTML
<select name="type" id="type">
<option value="0">-- select type --</option>
<option value="meeting">Meeting</option>
<option value="event" selected>Event</option>
</select>
HTML;
else:
//if ($_POST['hidSubmit'] != TRUE):
echo <<<HTML
<select name="type" id="type">
<option value="0" selected>-- select type --</option>
<option value="meeting">Meeting</option>
<option value="event">Event</option>
</select>
HTML;
endif;
?>
which works BUT I don't want to have to have that for a month
selector or a day selector :)
Any ideas what I'm missing?
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