Setting Default Drop Down Value

Hello All,

I have a script i'm working on where information is submited and so forth,

But i also have an edit page that when the info is pulled i want the default values set on the form,for the most part this is working fine except for drop downs


Basically i'm pulling MYSQL values and based on those setting the default drop down value for a field which so far hasn't been successful



Thanks,

hello climertech

you could try something like this

<option <?php echo $var =='whatever' ? 'selected' : ''?>>whatever</option>

i hope that helps ya

Sparchy

hello climertech

you could try something like this

<option <?php echo $var =='whatever' ? 'selected' : ''?>>whatever</option>

i hope that helps ya

Sparchy

That, except for xhtml doctypes the correct usage would be:

echo '<option value="value"'.(($field == 'current option value') ? ' selected="selected">' : '>').$field.'</option>';


Just an FYI, if you've not seen that ? comparison before, it's called a ternary comparison - you can find it in the php comparison manual :). It's basically an if else statement following this format:

(condition) ? TRUE : FALSE