[SOLVED] Handling <select>, anything besides PEAR?

[Gath]

Hi.

 

The problem is that i have a form that includes a birthdate in a <select> of Years, from 1900 up to 2000.

What i need is when the form isnt properly filled, and returns to itself, for the select to be on the year that was chosen, if any, instead of returning to the default value.

Checked the pear for it, but... too complicated for me

Looked around for regex or something, but i'm not finding anything. (altought i'm so tired i might just missed it completly -.-).

 

Any tips, ideas, or something?

 

Thanks.

[teng84]

what ? what is regex ? why do you neeeeeed that

you have a select menu right so the data are all coming on your format?

[AndyB]

Assuming your form uses the POST action ... something like this:

 

<?php
echo "<select name='the_year'>\n";
for ($i=1900;$i<2000;$i++) {
     echo "<option value='. $i. '";
     if ($i == $_POST['the_year']) { echo " selected='selected'";}
     echo ">". $i. "</option>\n";
}
echo "</select>";
><

[Gath]

Assuming your form uses the POST action ... something like this:

 

<?php
echo "<select name='the_year'>\n";
for ($i=1900;$i<2000;$i++) {
     echo "<option value='. $i. '";
     if ($i == $_POST['the_year']) { echo " selected='selected'";}
     echo ">". $i. "</option>\n";
}
echo "</select>";
><

 

 

Yeah, well, i said i was tired -.- anyway, that wasnt exactaly the my problem... it was a Country list.

I dont even know why i typed the Year thingie...

But thanks for your help.

[AndyB]

Same basic approach for anything. Assuming you have your country list in an array (who doesn't?) you iterate through the elements checking for equality at which point you echo out the selected = 'selected' bit ...