Displaying an array

[spires]

Hi Guys.

 

Does anyone know how to display an array inside a textarea?

 

What i'm trying to do select US state from a drop down menu,

this then refreshes the page, creating an array that holds all of the US states.

 

Then it should display the full list inside a textarea.

 

Example:

http://www.adwordstool.co.uk/test.php

 

If you select 'US State' from the drop down, it should

fill the top right textarea with the full list of states.

 

But, it just says array.

 

Heres some of the code:

<!-- Array -->
if ($alt=='US States'){
$state = array("Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming");

}


<!-- textarea -->
<textarea name="ad_group" cols="38" rows="8" class="Forms" style="background-color:#FFFFCC" id="ad_group">
<?PHP 
$alt_text_array =  explode(",", $state);
foreach ($alt_text_array as $altText) {
        $altText = trim($altText);
echo $altText; 
}
?>


<!-- DropDown -->
<select name="Alt" onChange="this.form.submit()">
<?PHP 
if ($alt){
echo '<option value="'.$alt.'" selected>'.$alt.'</option>';
echo '<option value="">------------</option>';
echo '<option value="US States">US States</option>';
echo '<option value="US Capitals">US Capitals</option>';
}else{
echo '<option value="" selected>Select Extentions</option>';
echo '<option value="US States">US States</option>';
echo '<option value="US Capitals">US Capitals</option>';
}
?>
</select>	

</textarea>

 

 

Thanks for any help\

 

Cheers

 

 

 

[discomatt]

Why are you echo'ing a dropdown inside of a text area? They're two different form elements.

[spires]

The drop down is not is inside of the textarea

 

These are just chuncks of code.

each part of code is seperated with the :

<!-- text -->

 

However, I am using a foreach loop inside the text area