Please Help: form list box....

[avon267]

Please Help: I want to update the list box form value!!!!!!!PLEASE HELP ME IN STEP 3

 

step 1:values displayed in form

<select name="optionlist">

<option value="Option 1" selected>Option 1</option>

<option value="Option 2">Option 2</option>

<option value="Option 3">Option 3</option>

<option value="Option 4">Option 4</option>

</select>

 

 

step 2:Saving value in db.

For example user selected option 2 and it get saved as " optionlist" = "option 2"

 

step 3: editing value

Please help.

How can I make "option 2" value as selected when I open form to update saved value "option 2", latter.

[rhodesa]

when editing, you first need to read the data from the db. i'll assume the info from the table for this value is stored in $optionlist.

<select name="optionlist">
<option value="Option 1" <?php if($optionlist == 'option 1') echo 'SELECTED'; ?>>Option 1</option>
<option value="Option 2" <?php if($optionlist == 'option 2') echo 'SELECTED'; ?>>Option 2</option>
<option value="Option 3" <?php if($optionlist == 'option 3') echo 'SELECTED'; ?>>Option 3</option>
<option value="Option 4" <?php if($optionlist == 'option 4') echo 'SELECTED'; ?>>Option 4</option>
</select>

 

i noticed that your values have a the first letter capitalized, but you store them lower case. not sure if that is supposed to be or not, but just make sure caps match up