array()

[brown2005]

function select_country($c)
{

$countries = array('', 'Afghanistan', 'Albania', 'American Samoa', 'Andorra', 'Antigua', 'Argentina', 'Armenia', 'Australia', 'Austria', 'Azerbaijan', 'Bahrain', 'Bangladesh', 'Barbados', 'Belarus', 'Belgium', 'Belize', 'Bolivia', 'Bosnia-Herzegovina', 'Brazil', 'Brunei Darussalam', 'Bulgaria', 'Cambodia', 'Canada', 'Chile', 'China', 'Colombia', 'Costa Rica', 'Croatia', 'Cuba', 'Cyprus', 'Czech Republic', 'Denmark', 'Ecuador', 'Egypt', 'El Salvador', 'England', 'Estonia', 'Falkland Islands', 'Fiji', 'Finland', 'France', 'French Guyana', 'Georgia', 'Germany', 'Gibraltar', 'Greece', 'Greenland', 'Grenada', 'Guatemala', 'Honduras', 'Hong Kong', 'Hungary', 'Iceland', 'India', 'Indonesia', 'Iran', 'Iraq', 'Ireland', 'Israel', 'Italy', 'Japan', 'Jordan', 'Kazakhstan', 'Kenya', 'Kuwait', 'Kyrgyzstan', 'Laos', 'Latvia', 'Lebanon', 'Libya', 'Liechtenstein', 'Lithuania', 'Luxembourg', 'Malaysia', 'Maldives', 'Malta', 'Mauritius', 'Mexico', 'Mongolia', 'Morocco', 'Nepal', 'Netherlands', 'New Zealand', 'Nicaragua', 'North Korea', 'Norway', 'Oman', 'Pakistan', 'Panama', 'Paraguay', 'Peru', 'Philippines', 'Poland', 'Portugal', 'Puerto Rico', 'Qatar', 'Romania', 'Russian Federation', 'Saudi Arabia', 'Singapore', 'Slovak Republic', 'Slovenia', 'South Africa', 'South Korea', 'Spain', 'Sri Lanka', 'Sweden', 'Switzerland', 'Syria', 'Taiwan', 'Thailand', 'Tunisia', 'Turkey', 'Turkmenistan', 'Ukraine', 'United Arab Emirates', 'United Kingdom', 'United States', 'Uruguay', 'Uzbekistan', 'Venezuela', 'Vietnam', 'Yemen', 'Yugoslavia', 'Zimbabwe');

$SelectCountry = "<select name='country' class='text'>\n\t";

while(list(,$v) = each($countries))
{
if($c == $v)
{
$SelectCountry .= "<option value=\"$v\" selected>$v&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</option>\n\t";
}
else
{
$SelectCountry .= "<option value=\"$v\">$v&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</option>\n\t";
}
}

$SelectCountry .= "</select>";

return $SelectCountry;

}

how can i change the array to read from say table countries in mysql

[trq]

learn to use [a href=\"http://php.net/mysql_query\" target=\"_blank\"]mysql_query[/a], [a href=\"http://php.net/mysql_fetch_array\" target=\"_blank\"]mysql_array[/a] and loop through your result creating an array.

[.josh]

[code]
$sql = "select country from tablename";
$result = mysql_query($sql);

$SelectCountry = "<select name='country' class='text'>\n\t";
while ($countries = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
   $SelectCountry.="<option value='".$countries['country']."'>".$countries['country']."</option>";
}
$SelectCountry.="</select>";
[/code]