Question

I need your help to solve a silly problem.
I have 2 tables in my database (contents and categories).

I have populated my MySQL table called “categories”, and now I want to see in a form the old category stored in the database while I modify it to a new one.

Unfortunately what I wrote shows only the list of the categories get from the database table.

<select name="PostedCat">
    <?php 

    $query_category = "SELECT * FROM categ";
    $result_category =  mysql_query($query_categ) or die (mysql_error());


    while($categ = mysql_fetch_assoc($result_category)){        
    ?>
        <option value="<?php echo $categ['cat_title']; ?>" ><?php echo $categ['cat_title']; ?></option>
    <?php
    }                       
    ?>
</select>

With this code I can see the categories stored in the database, but how can I get the “old” selected one? The stored one?

Hope in some help, but I’m blind at the moment.

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Assuming your old category is in $oldcat, just do

$query_category = "SELECT * FROM categ";
$result_category =  mysql_query($query_categ) or die (mysql_error());


while($categ = mysql_fetch_assoc($result_category)){        
?>
    <option value="<?php echo $categ['cat_title']; if ($categ['cat_title']==$oldcat) echo '" selected="true'; ?>" ><?php echo $categ['cat_title']; ?></option>
<?php
}                       
?>