Question

I have a question about a select box, I have a select box on the client side account.php with a list of States/Provinces and I already have other fields like address, name, email and etc.

I have a col in a database called state thats where user state info stores when I press update account, everything updates perfectly, but I wanna make sure my select box stays selected to whenever a user click on the update button and when they logback in it would stays selected when i choose my state now and update, it will update in the db but on the page when i logback in it goes to the first option box

Any simple example i could have that would be great!

<?php public function getUserData() { 
    global $db, $core; 
    $sql = "SELECT *, DATE_FORMAT(created, '%a. %d, %M %Y') AS cdate," . "\n DATE_FORMAT(lastlogin, '%a. %d, %M %Y') AS ldate" . "\n FROM " . $this->uTable . "\n 
            WHERE id = '" . $this->uid . "'"; 
    $row = $db->first($sql); 
    return ($row) ? $row : 0; 
} ?> 

<?php $row = $user->getUserData(); ?>
<select name="state" id="state">
    <?php $state = $row['state'];?>
    <option value="Ontario" <?php if($state == "Ontario") echo "SELECTED" ?>>Ontario</option>
    <option value="Alberta" <?php if($state == "Alberta") echo "SELECTED" ?>>Alberta</option>
</select>

Answer 1

Instead of rendering several <option> tags, it’s probably easier to use a loop. That makes things easier to maintain too. (You could also retrieve a list of states from the database.)

<?php
$states = array('Ontario' => 'Ontario', 'Alberta' => 'Alberta');
$row = $user->getUserData();
$state = $row['state'];
?>
<select name="state" id="state">
    <?php foreach($states as $shortName => $displayName):?>
        <option value="<?=$shortName;?>" <?php if($shortName == $state) echo "SELECTED" ?>><?=$displayName;?></option>
    <?php endforeach;?>
</select>