Question

Here is my problem, I have dropdown which used to save the selected option to a SQL database. Now I have an Edit option where the same dropdown is created dynamically to give the user to select and alternate option and save the edit. When the edit page launches I want the dropdown to be pre-selected the value already saved in the database.

I use following code to get done the similar thing with a textbox but strugling to put the same value attribute to the dropdown.

 <input name='routename' type='text'  value='".htmlentities($row['route'])."'> // This is working for the textbox

can someone tell me how to do this with a dropdown box? Thanks

Answer 1

It’s a little more complicated but can be achieved with this:

<select name="something">
    <option value="1"<?=($row['something'] == 1)? ' selected="selected"':''?>>Option 1</option>
    <option value="2"<?=($row['something'] == 2)? ' selected="selected"':''?>>Option 2</option>
</select>