Drop down list

[sandy1028]

Hi,

This is a simple script, When I select "Microcyb & PHPVALUE" and "Google , Yahoo"
only Microcyb and Google is printed.

How can i get the all the values from drop down list

<?php

echo '<form action="dropdown.php" method="GET">';
$category = array( 1=> "Microcyb & PHPVALUE", 2=> "Google , Yahoo", 3=> "YABB", 4=> "Macromedia", 5=> "PHP", ); 
$category = str_replace(" ", " ", $category); 

echo '<SELECT name=category>'; 
foreach ($category as $key => $value) 
{ 
echo '<OPTION value='.$value.'> '.$value.''; 
} 
echo '</select>'; 

echo '<input type ="submit" value="submit">';
echo '</form>';




	$name = $_REQUEST['category'];
	print $name;

?>

[Cups]

echo '<OPTION value="'.$value.'"> '.$value.''; 

You are not quoting the value, add " as above, the value should be quoted string or a plain integer - this is a html error on your part. If you had viewed "source" code in your browser you would have spotted it.

BTW

...  

echo '</select>' . PHP_EOL; 

echo '<input type ="submit" value="submit">' . PHP_EOL;
echo '</form>' . PHP_EOL; 

Adding the constant PHP_EOL adds a line end so your source code can be read easily too, anything that helps you to debug, right?

$category = str_replace(" ", " ", $category);  // uh? 

[SJH]

Adding the constant PHP_EOL adds a line end so your source code can be read easily too, anything that helps you to debug, right

Wow, I never knew that! I usually just use

echo 'Hello world'."\n"; 

Which I've always thought is far too ugly

[Cups]

Yeah, its a right kludge isnt it?

You are just getting used to using single quotes because you are disciplining yourself to keep most html output somewhere else, then you have to revert to "\n" to double quotes, nightmare.

I learned about PHP_EOL on here too.

[sandy1028]

echo '<OPTION value="'.$value.'"> '.$value.'';

This works.
But another problem is text box will omit the string after special characters.
For ex:

 <option <? if(getValue($frm['value']) == 'name') {echo 'selected';} ?> value='name'>name</option>

When selected the value from this drop down, the string after special character is truncated.
How to fix this

[Cups]

View the html source code, does that look correct?

[sandy1028]

View the html source code, does that look correct?

Now I tried with the text box value.
In the text box the value entered was "Hi , how r u"
<input type="text" name="name" id="search" value="Hi " >

In the text box only the value is truncated.

[Cups]

Looks as if you aren't quoting the html properly, if an attribute contains a string like_this, then html is forgiving enough to assign it the value "like_this", but if your string contains a space like that then html splits it at the first space and reads it as "like".

So you have to make sure the output of your PHP, which itself is quoted, is quoted correctly.

Where this will work:
echo '<a href="anotherpage.php?id=' . $id . '">A link</a>' ;
Giving:
<a href="anotherpage.php?id=23">A link</a>

this (missing closing double quote)
echo '<a href="anotherpage.php?id=' . $id . '>A link</a>' ;

Will not work:
<a href="anotherpage.php?id=23>A link</a>


So it is critical that you get your head round that fact, get used to looking at the source code of the page until you have worked out the best quoting practice that you can not only remember - but apply in every piece of code you write.