Re: Dropdown menus from DB query

[Cole Ashcraft <cashcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, the \ (backslash) tells PHP to echo the ". This prevents PHP from 
thinking that the quote means the end of an echo statement.

Cole

Shahmat Bin Dahlan wrote:

> I think this is the line which is the cause of your coding woes...
> The quote (") doesn't have any matching pair. There's one quote in
> front, but there's none at the back.
>
> echo "<select name=\"dropdown\">;
>     *                          *
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Cole Ashcraft <cole.ashcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, June 18, 2004 9:23 am
> Subject: Re:  Dropdown menus from DB query
>
>  
>
> > Thanks. I think I can work from this. Just to let you know, it 
> > generatesa parse error ( I think its because of the quotes).
> >
> > Cole
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 18:09, Ng Hwee Hwee wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > hmm... what about something like this??
> > >
> > > echo "<select name=\"dropdown\">;
> > >
> > > $query = "select code, name from table";
> > >
> > > $result = mysql_query($query);
> > >
> > > while($array = mysql_fetch_array($result))
> > > {
> > >    echo "<option 
> > >      
> > value=\"".$array["code"]."\">".$array["name"]."</option>";> }
> >    
> >
> > > echo "</select>";
> > >
> > > hth
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Cole Ashcraft" <cole.ashcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 7:50 AM
> > > Subject:  Dropdown menus from DB query
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > How would you create a drop down menu from a database query? I 
> > > >        
> > have> > figured how to do it with one field, but how could it be 
> > done with a
> >    
> >
> > > > system where the value is different than the displayed value (ie.
> > > > numerical code as the value, name displayed)?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Cole
> > > >        
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