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I am truly a novice. haha.  This is so elegant.  

I don't have access to a database, so I'll go with your array structure.
The PHP server is < 4.1.  I have to go with 
$HTTP_POST_VARS["timeChoice"] (Explicit reference)

I was originally doing this using #3 of your notes 9type out each if 
statement), but that was so inefficient that there had to be another way.
I can load the date values in an array and cycle through that.

Thank you Justin for the tip.  Let me attempt to work along the idea you 
provided.

--Stephen


Justin French wrote:

>For starters, let's assume that these dates are stored in a database or
>array, so that we can do everything through a loop.
>
>I'll just do an array of 4 dates to prove the point:
>
><?
>$dates = array(
>    'Saturday August 23, 10:00 PM - 12:00 AM',
>    'Sunday August 24, 12:00 AM - 02:00 AM',
>    'Sunday August 24, 12:00 PM - 02:00 PM',
>    'Sunday August 24, 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM'
>    );
>?>
><select name="timeChoice">
><?
>foreach($dates as $key => $val)
>    {
>    if( (isset($_POST['timeChoice'])) && ($val == $_POST['timeChoice']) )
>        { $sel = ' SELECTED'; }
>    else
>        { $sel = ''; }
>    echo "<option value='{$val}'{$sel}>{$val}</option>";
>    }
>?>
></select>
>
>1. untested code
>
>2. assumes register globals are OFF and PHP > 4.1 ... change
>$_POST['timeChoice'] to $timeChoice if you're old fashioned :)
>
>3. if you don't have these dates in an array or db table, then you will have
>to manually type out each if statement, to check whether the value you're
>putting into the option matches a value in $_POST['timeChoice']
>
>4. change $_POST['timeChoice'] to $_GET['timeChoice'] if your <form> method
>is GET.
>
>
>Justin
>
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