Easy Fix im assuming

[justinjkiss]

OK below is my code. the values for $row['state'] are in this format "AL - Alabama" its got the space in it.

 

													
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<option value=" . $row['state'] . '">' . $row['state'];
}
?>

 

When i run the script it outputs HTML as this

<option value="AL" -="" alabama"="">AL - Alabama</option>

 

As you can see at the space it terminates and puts the " in. Im assuming this is a rookie programming mistake.

 

Please help,

Justin

 

[smerny]

you don't have an opening quote for the value... actually your quotes are more messed up after that as well

 

try this

 

echo "<option value='" . $row['state'] . "'>" . $row['state'] ."</option>";

[justinjkiss]

Thanks a ton... i feel stupid for that miss

[AyKay47]

Something that I like to do is wrap array indices in curly braces when using double quotes.

 

echo "<option value=\"{$row['state']}\">{$row['state']}</option>";

 

I'm too lazy to concatenate all of the time, improves readability though.