Question

I have a problem when populating drop-down list from MySQL with fields that contain two or more words.

For instance, when I populate the drop-down with names it says John Smith, but when I enter data in another table from that drop-down, only John is stored in the database without Smith.

What could be the problem?

Here’s the code:

<td>
  <select name="opstina">
    <option value=></option>
    <?php
        $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM opstine");
        while($podaci = mysql_fetch_array($query))
        {
            echo "<option value= {$podaci['naziv']}>{$podaci['naziv']}</option>";
        }
    ?>
  </select>
</td>

Answer 1

It’s likely that you need to quote your values …

<td>
    <select name="opstina"> 
    <option value=""></option> 
    <?php 
        $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM opstine"); 
        while($podaci = mysql_fetch_array($query)) { 
            echo '<option value="' . $podaci['naziv'] . '">' . $podaci['naziv'] . '</option>'; 
        }
    ?> 
    </select>
</td>

Otherwise it ends up being <option value=John Smith> in the HTML and only John would be assigned to the value … you want it to be <option value="John Smith"> …