Question

I am trying to load a mulitple select from the database to edit.

I am storing the original data in an imploded string (ie “4, 6, 8, 9”).

What I want to do is explode that string from the database, then have the values selected when the edit form is loaded. The values are Float, then 1-52.

Here is the code I have so far, but it does not select the values.

$listing->getWeeksAvail() is just a call that returns the WeeksAvail property in this case “4, 6, 8, 9)

<?php
$weeks_available = explode(",", $listing->getWeeksAvail());
if (in_array("Float", $weeks_available)) {
    echo " selected='selected'";
}
?>

>Float</option>
<?php
    for($float=0; $float<=52; $float++) {
        echo "<option value=\"$float\"";
        if (($listing instanceof listing) && $float == $listing->getWeeksAvail()) {
        echo " selected='selected'";
    }
        echo ">$float</option>\n";
}

Answer 1

The second part of your code should be like this:

<?php
for ($float=0; $float<=52; $float++) {
    echo "<option value=\"$float\"";
    if (in_array($float, $weeks_available))) {
    echo " selected='selected'";
    }
    echo ">$float</option>\n";
}