Easy comma-delimited list to dropdown box converter

[Chad Seibert]

Hello, Community

 

I was working on a simple converter when I realized that by not setting the id param of the option tag, it wasn't going to send the value of the dropdown box to my php script.??? I had this to start with:

 

function ReplaceWithOption($stringtoreplace, $numtabs)
{
	//This creates a string that contains the number of tabs required to tab in and align the code
	for($x=0; $x < $numtabs; $x++)
		$tabs .= "\t";

	//Replaces all instances of ', ' with </option>\n<option> and aligns it
	$ret = preg_replace("/, /", "</option>\n".$tabs."<option>", $stringtoreplace);
	//This adds a blank option at the beginning and adds the starting and ending tags the above code
	//doesn't do
	$ret = "<option></option>\n".$tabs."<option>".$ret."</option>";

	return $ret;
}

 

But is there an easy way to get this to insert the id into it?

 

Thanks for any assistance

Chad Seibert

[chawezul]

I don't know much about Regex, but I would go about using explode() with the ", " to break it into an array, then loop through it and echo <option id="${exploded[$i]}" />