NYCPHP Meetup

[Jerry Kapron]

...
 >In the reprinted SELECT tag, one of the OPTION tags will now have a
SELECTED
>attribute.  Is there any elegant way to insert the SELECTED attribute on
>the right option?

First create an array with all your options for the <select> menu:

$TimeChoice_options = array(
    'Friday August 22, 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM',
    'Friday August 22, 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM',
    'Friday August 22, 08:00 PM - 10:00 PM',
    ...
);


Next define this function:

function make_select($source, $field_name, $selected_id = "")
{
 echo '<select name="'.$field_name.'" id="'.$field_name."\\">\
";
 foreach($source as $element)
 {
  if(is_array($element)
  {
   $id = $element[0];
   $label = $element[1];
  }
  else
  {
   $id = $element;
   $label = $element;
  }
  $sel = ($selected_id == $id)?' selected':'';
  echo '<option value="'.$id.'"'.$sel.'>'.$label."</option>\
";
 }
 echo "</select>\
";
}


Now place this function call where you would like to have your <select> menu
built:
make_select($TimeChoice_options, 'TimeChoice',
$HTTP_GET_VARS['TimeChoice']);

Change $HTTP_GET_VARS to $HTTP_POST_VARS if you use method="POST" in your
form tag:
make_select($TimeChoice_options, 'TimeChoice',
$HTTP_POST_VARS['TimeChoice']);


In the future if your values and labels are different for your <select>
options:
<option value="1">Monday</option>
<option value="2">Tuesday</option>
<option value="3">Wednesday</option>
<option value="4">Thursday</option>
...

... just build a two-dimentional array instead (the above function is ready
for it):

$TimeChoice_options = array(
    array( '1', 'Monday'),
    array( '2', 'Tuesday' ),
    array( '3', 'Wednesday'),
    array( '3', 'Thursday'),
    ...
);

Good Luck,

Jerry

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