select OPTION not SELECTED - Am I losing my mind?

[fishnyc22]

Ok. I'm either going crazy or I've just been plain sitting here to long.

I have this simple loop to build a select field showing page numbers. But for some weird reason. its compeltely ignoring the SELECTED copy that should be written into the option field.

$page = (!isset($_GET['page'])) ? 1 : $_GET['page']; 
$pagenumbers = "";
$pagenumbers .= "  <form><select name='menu1' onchange=\"MM_jumpMenu('parent',this,0)\">\n";

 
for($i = 1; $i <= $total_pages; $i++) { 
	$pagenumbers .= "	 <option value='" . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . "?a=" . $ashort. "&page=" . $i . "'";
	if($page == $i) $pagenumbers .=  " selected";
	$pagenumbers .= ">Page $i</option>\n";
} 

$pagenumbers .= "  </select></form>\n";

I've checked al values for $page, and $i, ran and echo test to see what its doing and still nothing. When I view the source on the page I see:

<select name="menu1" onchange="MM_jumpMenu('parent',this,0)">
	 <option value="index.php?a=test&amp;page=1">Page 1</option>
	 <option value="index.php?a=test&amp;page=2">Page 2</option>
	 <option value="index.php?a=test&amp;page=3">Page 3</option>
	 <option value="/index.php?a=test&amp;page=4">Page 4</option>
  </select>

Am I going nuts. why would it not write in the selected. there is definately a match when it sees 'page' number in the URL string.

Whats weird is that its writing "&" and it also converted my single quotes to double (but maybe thats normal)....

Please bail me out of this ridiculous hole I'm in

[Fumigator]

I tried your exact code (with an added echo $pagenumber; at the bottom) and it worked just as you'd expect. So yes, you are going crazy.

How is $pagenumber getting outputted?

[Inigoesdr]

Yep, the code works. Are you sure you're looking at the right code in the right place?

[aedrin]

if($page == $i) $pagenumbers .= " selected";

PHP Code:

    if($page == $i) $pagenumbers .=  ' selected="selected"'; 


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[fishnyc22]

thanks guys. I output it simply with:

echo "<div id='pg'>\n";
echo $pagenumbers;
echo "</div>\n";

I swear I'm not crazy!

[fishnyc22]

tried that too.

I even tried to just hard code "selected" into the area and it isnt showing up.

Originally Posted by aedrin

PHP Code:

    if($page == $i) $pagenumbers .=  ' selected="selected"'; 


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[fishnyc22]

OK. I think whats going on is related to the "&amp;" in the URLs. What would cause them to not be converted to &?

Could it be an HTML error that I'm not seeing?