Question

<select name="country[]" multiple="multiple" id="type" class="medium" style="width:20%;height:300px;">
    <option value="United States">United States</option>
    <option value="Canada">Canada</option>
        <option value="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</option>
    <option value="Australia">Australia</option>
    <option>---------------------------------</option>

   {foreach from=$country key=id item=n}
     {foreach from=$cntry key=i item=name}

      <option value="{$n}" {if $name == $n}SELECTED{/if}>{$n}</option>
     {/foreach}
   {/foreach}
 </select>    

For some reason, it’s repeating every country I have in an array list 4 times, and it isn’t selecting the ones from $cntry that match the ones in $country.

$cntry (selected countries from rows in the DB), while $country is just an array list of all the countries.

Answer 1

You can try this way:

   {foreach from=$country key=id item=n}
     {assign var=sel value=''}
     {foreach from=$cntry key=i item=name}
        {if $name == $n}{assign var=sel value='selected'}{/if}
     {/foreach}
      <option value="{$n}" {$sel}>{$n}</option>
   {/foreach}