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So I have a registration form setup.  When the user submits the form it sets session variables for each of the form fields and then checks the database to see if the username is taken.  If the username is taken I have the form fields values to display the value of what the user just submitted.  My problem is I have 2 drop down fields: States and Countries  I am using the the following for my countries dropdown box and it works to remember the selection the user made, BUT how can I have it remember the option name as well as the option value?  IE if the user chooses United States of America and submits the form I want the drop down to display United States of America not US  here is the code:

 

<select id="country" name="country" tabindex = "511">
				<option value="<?php if(isset($_SESSION['country'])) echo $_SESSION['country']; ?>" selected="<?php if(isset($_SESSION['country'])) echo $_SESSION['country']; ?>"><?php if(isset($_SESSION['country'])) echo $_SESSION['country']; ?></option>
			    <option value="">(please select a country)</option>
			    <option value="AF">Afghanistan</option>
			    <option value="AL">Albania</option>
			    <option value="DZ">Algeria</option>
			    <option value="AS">American Samoa</option>
			    <option value="AD">Andorra</option>
			    <option value="AO">Angola</option>
			    <option value="AI">Anguilla</option>
			    <option value="AQ">Antarctica</option>
			    <option value="AG">Antigua and Barbuda</option>
			    <option value="AR">Argentina</option>
			    <option value="AM">Armenia</option>
			    <option value="AW">Aruba</option>
			    <option value="AU">Australia</option>
			    <option value="AT">Austria</option>
			    <option value="AZ">Azerbaijan</option>
			    <option value="BS">Bahamas</option>
			    <option value="BH">Bahrain</option>
			    <option value="BD">Bangladesh</option>
			    <option value="BB">Barbados</option>
			    <option value="BY">Belarus</option>
			    <option value="BE">Belgium</option>
			    <option value="BZ">Belize</option>
			    <option value="BJ">Benin</option>
			    <option value="BM">Bermuda</option>
			    <option value="BT">Bhutan</option>
			    <option value="BO">Bolivia</option>
			    <option value="BA">Bosnia and Herzegowina</option>
			    <option value="BW">Botswana</option>
			    <option value="BV">Bouvet Island</option>
			    <option value="BR">Brazil</option>
			    <option value="IO">British Indian Ocean Territory</option>
			    <option value="BN">Brunei Darussalam</option>
			    <option value="BG">Bulgaria</option>
			    <option value="BF">Burkina Faso</option>
			    <option value="BI">Burundi</option>
			    <option value="KH">Cambodia</option>
			    <option value="CM">Cameroon</option>
			    <option value="CA">Canada</option>
			    <option value="CV">Cape Verde</option>
			    <option value="KY">Cayman Islands</option>
			    <option value="CF">Central African Republic</option>
			    <option value="TD">Chad</option>
			    <option value="CL">Chile</option>
			    <option value="CN">China</option>
			    <option value="CX">Christmas Island</option>
			    <option value="CC">Cocos (Keeling) Islands</option>
			    <option value="CO">Colombia</option>
			    <option value="KM">Comoros</option>
			    <option value="CG">Congo</option>
			    <option value="CD">Congo, the Democratic Republic of the</option>
			    <option value="CK">Cook Islands</option>
			    <option value="CR">Costa Rica</option>
			    <option value="CI">Cote d'Ivoire</option>
			    <option value="HR">Croatia (Hrvatska)</option>
			    <option value="CU">Cuba</option>
			    <option value="CY">Cyprus</option>
			    <option value="CZ">Czech Republic</option>
			    <option value="DK">Denmark</option>
			    <option value="DJ">Djibouti</option>
			    <option value="DM">Dominica</option>
			    <option value="DO">Dominican Republic</option>
			    <option value="TP">East Timor</option>
			    <option value="EC">Ecuador</option>
			    <option value="EG">Egypt</option>
			    <option value="SV">El Salvador</option>
			    <option value="GQ">Equatorial Guinea</option>
			    <option value="ER">Eritrea</option>
			    <option value="EE">Estonia</option>
			    <option value="ET">Ethiopia</option>
			    <option value="FK">Falkland Islands (Malvinas)</option>
			    <option value="FO">Faroe Islands</option>
			    <option value="FJ">Fiji</option>
			    <option value="FI">Finland</option>
			    <option value="FR">France</option>
			    <option value="FX">France, Metropolitan</option>
			    <option value="GF">French Guiana</option>
			    <option value="PF">French Polynesia</option>
			    <option value="TF">French Southern Territories</option>
			    <option value="GA">Gabon</option>
			    <option value="GM">Gambia</option>
			    <option value="GE">Georgia</option>
			    <option value="DE">Germany</option>
			    <option value="GH">Ghana</option>
			    <option value="GI">Gibraltar</option>
			    <option value="GR">Greece</option>
			    <option value="GL">Greenland</option>
			    <option value="GD">Grenada</option>
			    <option value="GP">Guadeloupe</option>
			    <option value="GU">Guam</option>
			    <option value="GT">Guatemala</option>
			    <option value="GN">Guinea</option>
			    <option value="GW">Guinea-Bissau</option>
			    <option value="GY">Guyana</option>
			    <option value="HT">Haiti</option>
			    <option value="HM">Heard and Mc Donald Islands</option>
			    <option value="VA">Holy See (Vatican City State)</option>
			    <option value="HN">Honduras</option>
			    <option value="HK">Hong Kong</option>
			    <option value="HU">Hungary</option>
			    <option value="IS">Iceland</option>
			    <option value="IN">India</option>
			    <option value="ID">Indonesia</option>
			    <option value="IR">Iran (Islamic Republic of)</option>
			    <option value="IQ">Iraq</option>
			    <option value="IE">Ireland</option>
			    <option value="IL">Israel</option>
			    <option value="IT">Italy</option>
			    <option value="JM">Jamaica</option>
			    <option value="JP">Japan</option>
			    <option value="JO">Jordan</option>
			    <option value="KZ">Kazakhstan</option>
			    <option value="KE">Kenya</option>
			    <option value="KI">Kiribati</option>
			    <option value="KP">Korea, Democratic People's Republic of</option>
			    <option value="KR">Korea, Republic of</option>
			    <option value="KW">Kuwait</option>
			    <option value="KG">Kyrgyzstan</option>
			    <option value="LA">Lao People's Democratic Republic</option>
			    <option value="LV">Latvia</option>
			    <option value="LB">Lebanon</option>
			    <option value="LS">Lesotho</option>
			    <option value="LR">Liberia</option>
			    <option value="LY">Libyan Arab Jamahiriya</option>
			    <option value="LI">Liechtenstein</option>
			    <option value="LT">Lithuania</option>
			    <option value="LU">Luxembourg</option>
			    <option value="MO">Macau</option>
			    <option value="MK">Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of</option>
			    <option value="MG">Madagascar</option>
			    <option value="MW">Malawi</option>
			    <option value="MY">Malaysia</option>
			    <option value="MV">Maldives</option>
			    <option value="ML">Mali</option>
			    <option value="MT">Malta</option>
			    <option value="MH">Marshall Islands</option>
			    <option value="MQ">Martinique</option>
			    <option value="MR">Mauritania</option>
			    <option value="MU">Mauritius</option>
			    <option value="YT">Mayotte</option>
			    <option value="MX">Mexico</option>
			    <option value="FM">Micronesia, Federated States of</option>
			    <option value="MD">Moldova, Republic of</option>
			    <option value="MC">Monaco</option>
			    <option value="MN">Mongolia</option>
			    <option value="MS">Montserrat</option>
			    <option value="MA">Morocco</option>
			    <option value="MZ">Mozambique</option>
			    <option value="MM">Myanmar</option>
			    <option value="NA">Namibia</option>
			    <option value="NR">Nauru</option>
			    <option value="NP">Nepal</option>
			    <option value="NL">Netherlands</option>
			    <option value="AN">Netherlands Antilles</option>
			    <option value="NC">New Caledonia</option>
			    <option value="NZ">New Zealand</option>
			    <option value="NI">Nicaragua</option>
			    <option value="NE">Niger</option>
			    <option value="NG">Nigeria</option>
			    <option value="NU">Niue</option>
			    <option value="NF">Norfolk Island</option>
			    <option value="MP">Northern Mariana Islands</option>
			    <option value="NO">Norway</option>
			    <option value="OM">Oman</option>
			    <option value="PK">Pakistan</option>
			    <option value="PW">Palau</option>
			    <option value="PA">Panama</option>
			    <option value="PG">Papua New Guinea</option>
			    <option value="PY">Paraguay</option>
			    <option value="PE">Peru</option>
			    <option value="PH">Philippines</option>
			    <option value="PN">Pitcairn</option>
			    <option value="PL">Poland</option>
			    <option value="PT">Portugal</option>
			    <option value="PR">Puerto Rico</option>
			    <option value="QA">Qatar</option>
			    <option value="RE">Reunion</option>
			    <option value="RO">Romania</option>
			    <option value="RU">Russian Federation</option>
			    <option value="RW">Rwanda</option>
			    <option value="KN">Saint Kitts and Nevis</option> 
			    <option value="LC">Saint LUCIA</option>
			    <option value="VC">Saint Vincent and the Grenadines</option>
			    <option value="WS">Samoa</option>
			    <option value="SM">San Marino</option>
			    <option value="ST">Sao Tome and Principe</option> 
			    <option value="SA">Saudi Arabia</option>
			    <option value="SN">Senegal</option>
			    <option value="SC">Seychelles</option>
			    <option value="SL">Sierra Leone</option>
			    <option value="SG">Singapore</option>
			    <option value="SK">Slovakia (Slovak Republic)</option>
			    <option value="SI">Slovenia</option>
			    <option value="SB">Solomon Islands</option>
			    <option value="SO">Somalia</option>
			    <option value="ZA">South Africa</option>
			    <option value="GS">South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands</option>
			    <option value="ES">Spain</option>
			    <option value="LK">Sri Lanka</option>
			    <option value="SH">St. Helena</option>
			    <option value="PM">St. Pierre and Miquelon</option>
			    <option value="SD">Sudan</option>
			    <option value="SR">Suriname</option>
			    <option value="SJ">Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands</option>
			    <option value="SZ">Swaziland</option>
			    <option value="SE">Sweden</option>
			    <option value="CH">Switzerland</option>
			    <option value="SY">Syrian Arab Republic</option>
			    <option value="TW">Taiwan, Province of China</option>
			    <option value="TJ">Tajikistan</option>
			    <option value="TZ">Tanzania, United Republic of</option>
			    <option value="TH">Thailand</option>
			    <option value="TG">Togo</option>
			    <option value="TK">Tokelau</option>
			    <option value="TO">Tonga</option>
			    <option value="TT">Trinidad and Tobago</option>
			    <option value="TN">Tunisia</option>
			    <option value="TR">Turkey</option>
			    <option value="TM">Turkmenistan</option>
			    <option value="TC">Turks and Caicos Islands</option>
			    <option value="TV">Tuvalu</option>
			    <option value="UG">Uganda</option>
			    <option value="UA">Ukraine</option>
			    <option value="AE">United Arab Emirates</option>
			    <option value="GB">United Kingdom</option>
			    <option value="US">United States</option>
			    <option value="UM">United States Minor Outlying Islands</option>
			    <option value="UY">Uruguay</option>
			    <option value="UZ">Uzbekistan</option>
			    <option value="VU">Vanuatu</option>
			    <option value="VE">Venezuela</option>
			    <option value="VN">Viet Nam</option>
			    <option value="VG">Virgin Islands (British)</option>
			    <option value="VI">Virgin Islands (U.S.)</option>
			    <option value="WF">Wallis and Futuna Islands</option>
			    <option value="EH">Western Sahara</option>
			    <option value="YE">Yemen</option>
			    <option value="YU">Yugoslavia</option>
			    <option value="ZM">Zambia</option>
			    <option value="ZW">Zimbabwe</option>
			</select>

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<select id="country" name="country" tabindex = "511">
			    <option value="">(please select a country)</option>
			    <option value="AF" <?php if($_SESSION['country'] =="AF")echo " selected = \"selected\" ";?>>Afghanistan</option>
			    <option value="AL" ?php if($_SESSION['country'] =="AL")echo " selected = \"selected\" ";?>>Albania</option>
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Actually the first file I uploaded was incorrect.  The previous file did not work when you initially loaded the page because the session['country'] variable doesn't get set until the form is submitted so I added a check to see if the session is set.  This file has the correctly working code.

 

Sorry about that  :-[

 

 

 

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