Form Stickyness Not Working

[thara]

hi.. can anybody tell me what is the wrong with this code....?

 

  <?php
   // array for tution option for searching
   $findOptions = array( 1 => 'Private Tutors', 'Tutorial Centers', 'Individual Classes', 'Group Classes', 'Online Classes', 'Study Packs');

   // Make the find tution option drop down menu
   echo '<label><select name="search_option">';
   foreach ($findOptions as $key => $value) {
    echo '<option value="'. $key . '"' ;

    // Check for stickyness:
    if ( isset( $_POST['search_option']) && $_POST['search_option'] == $value )
	 echo ' selected="selected"';

    echo " >$value</option>\n";
   }
   echo '</select></label>';	  
  ?>

 

I am trying to make this select box to stickness.. but it is not working..

 

thanks

[Muddy_Funster]

I'm sorry....your trying to do what?

[Beeeeney]

Make it so that when someone submits the form, it remembers what was submitted so they don't have to enter it again next time. I think.

[thara]

beeeeney you are correct... so how can i do it???

[Muddy_Funster]

ahh, then your checking the wrong thing, you want to check $key, not $value in this line :

if ( isset( $_POST['search_option']) && $_POST['search_option'] == $value ) 

[Jessica]

echo '<option value="'. $key . '"' ;
           
                // Check for stickyness:
                if ( isset( $_POST['search_option']) && $_POST['search_option'] == $value )
                 echo ' selected="selected"';
           
                echo " >$value</option>\n";

 

I would assume that $_POST['search_option'] would match $key, not $value. 

[Beeeeney]

I'm not 100% sure how you'd go about doing it but I'm sure it involves sessions, cookies, writing to a database and then pulling the same information from the database next time, based on the cookie.

 

That's how I'd do it, anyway.

 

Edit: What they said ^

Edited October 30, 2012 by Beeeeney