i cant get it to output

[gotornot]

Im trying to run a simple if command and this doesnt seem to work im trying to get it to hiighlight the option already selected in the db any ideas why?

function selected()
{
global $selectedno;
//for loop to loop through 10
$a = 11;
for ($i = 0; $i <10; $i++)
{
$a = --$a;
$num = $a;
if ($selectedno == $num)
{
$bash = ' selected="selected"';
}
echo '<option value="' . $a . '"' . $bash . '>' . $a . ' ' . $selectedno . ' </option>';
}
}

[Maq]

1) Use code tags.

2) Why are you declaring '$selectedno' global?  I don't see where that variable is coming from.  If it's being read from the DB previously in the script then you should just pass it to the function as a parameter.

3) In your echo statement, you can use double quotes for the string and single quotes for the attributes so you don't have to keep concatenating to the string by breaking out of it.