hmm, interesting to know the mysql_fetch_array() by default returns an array
that's associative AND numeric - very useful to know & something i'll have
to look into more, thanks Jason.
Thanks also John, puting curley braces around the variables is a valuable
lesson - works wonderfully - cheers.
i do have one more problem though, i need to run the loop a 2nd time later
in the page in exactly the same way, but nothing is returned.
i just copied & pasted the code from one section of the page to the next.
do i need to reset one of the vaiables?
<select name="dept">
<option>-select-</option>
<?PHP
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result_dept)){
echo "<option value=\"{$row['dept']}\">{$row['dept']}</option>\n";
}
?>
</select>
cheers, Gav
-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Holmes [mailto:holmes072000@charter.net]
Sent: Friday, 29 November 2002 2:59 AM
To: 'Gavin Amm'; 'Php-Db (E-mail)'
Subject: RE: foreach loop from MySQL select query to HTML
select list
> i've looked around the web a bit more & it would appear you can't just
use
> a
> foreach function, apparently you need to use a while{foreach{}}
structure.
> i
> was hoping you could just use the foreach function?
>
> so this is the code now:
>
> <select name="deptsub_select">
> <option>-select-</option>
> <?PHP
> while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result_deptsub)){
> foreach ($row as $value) {
> echo "<option value=\"$value\">$value</option>\n";
Where did you get the idea to use foreach? Your select statement is only
selecting one column, so $row is only going to have one column in it for
each mysql_fetch_*.
Use something like this:
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result_deptsub))
{ echo "<option
value=\"{$row['deptsub']}\">{$row['deptsub']}</option>\n"; }
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