List Boxes

[glenelkins]

Hi

If i use the following HTML is creates a nice list box:

[code]
<select size="3" multiple>
  <option>1</option>
  <option>2</option>
  <option>3</option>
</select>
[/code]

So why does this not work??:

[code]
<select size="3" multiple>
  <?
  for ($i=0;$i<2;$i++) {
    ?>
    <option><? echo $i; ?></option>
    <?
  }
  ?>
</select>
[/code]

[poirot]

I don't know, because it works here. Maybe if you use the conventional start tag (<?php instead of <?) ?

[code]<select size="3" multiple>
  <?php
  for ($i=0;$i<2;$i++) {
    ?>
    <option><?php echo $i; ?></option>
    <?php
  }
  ?>
</select>[/code]

In fact I don't like the idea of hopping in and out of PHP:

[code]<select size="3" multiple>
  <?php
  for ($i=0;$i<2;$i++) {
    echo '<option>' . $i . '</option>' . "\n";
  }
  ?>
</select>[/code]

Or :

[code]<?php

echo '<select size="3" multiple>';

  for ($i=0;$i<2;$i++) {
    echo '<option>' . $i . '</option>' . "\n";
  }

echo '</select>';

?>[/code]

All of them worked here.

[glenelkins]

Hi

It actually makes no difference with the <? and <?php tags (at all!!! they are the same)

Its working now, i pasted the code...wierd!! when i type it it does not like it. Unless its my computer adding in invisible characters, iv had that before!!



..and now its working when typed.

[.josh]

[!--quoteo--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
It actually makes no difference with the <? and <?php tags (at all!!! they are the same)
[/quote]
actually, they are different. not all servers support [code]<?[/code] if your server supports it, fine and dandy, but say you wanna move to a new server, and guess what, it doesn't support it. since you like hopping in and out of php, you'd have an awful lot of editing to do...