Drop Down Select Box, Setting on the right Selection from MySQL!

[Jumpy09]

First, to my knowledge this is a code thing.  It's all php based, the sql side is ready just needs a particular place to go.

 

Function:

function dropdown( $name, array $options, $selected=null )
{
    /*** begin the select ***/
    $dropdown = '<select name="'.$name.'" id="'.$name.'">'."\n";

    $selected = $selected;
    /*** loop over the options ***/
    foreach( $options as $key=>$option )
    {
        /*** assign a selected value ***/
        $select = $selected==$key ? ' selected' : null;

        /*** add each option to the dropdown ***/
        $dropdown .= '<option value="'.$option.'"'.$select.'>'.$option.'</option>'."\n";
    }

    /*** close the select ***/
    $dropdown .= '</select>'."\n";

    /*** and return the completed dropdown ***/
    return $dropdown;
}

 

Actual Use of Said Function:

<tr><td>Smoke:</td><td><?php $name = 'smoke';
$options = array( 'Prefer not to say', 'Yes', 'No' );
$selected = 0;
echo dropdown( $name, $options, $selected ); ?></td></tr>

 

Since the array displays to the $selected part as 0 - 2 I can't put Selected = $databaseitem.

Prefer not to say = 0

Yes = 1

No = 2

 

How can I alter the Selected zone to choose words instead of numbers?  So I could for instance put $selected = "Prefer Not To Say";

Any ideas?

 

Yesterday or the Day before, I thought I had the Answer!  Today I realized I didn't.  Without the function I can add an option above where it would pull the options by the SQL Database. 

 

For example:

		<tr><td>Topic:</td><td><select name="topic"><option value="<?php echo $topic3; ?>"><? echo $topic3; ?></option>
<?php
$q = "SELECT topicid, topicname FROM news_topics ORDER BY topicname";
$results = mysql_query($q);
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($results))
{
  echo "<option value=\"".$row['topicid']."\">".$row['topicname']."\n  ";
}
?></select></td></tr>

 

That unfortunately shows two of the same option, but it works!  If anyone has any fixes to make it smooth, I wouldn't mind em.

[Jumpy09]

<tr><td>Smoke:</td><td><?php $name = 'smoke';
$options = array( "$smoke", 'Prefer not to say', 'Yes', 'No' );
$selected = 0;
echo dropdown( $name, $options, $selected ); ?></td></tr>

 

Just In case anyone wanted to know the answer!  I just did what I did for the other one, seems like the only real solution, at least according to easiest method.