Lyssa

I’m having a story script where author has to select the character in the list. How do I make the list selected on a certain character even before the author does anything?

Here’s part of the script:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT gid, genre FROM ".$tableprefix."fanfiction_genres");

$numgenres = mysql_num_rows($result);

$output .= "<INPUT type=\"hidden\" name=\"numgenres\" value=\"$numgenres\">";

if($numgenres != "0")

{

if($gid == "")

$output .= "<font style=\"color:red\">";

$output .= ""._GENRES.":";

if($gid == "")

$output .= "</font>";

$output .= "</td><td>";



$output .= "<select name=\"gid[]\" size=\"5\" multiple>";

while ($genreresults = mysql_fetch_array($result))

{

$output .= "<option value=\"$genreresults[genre]\"";

if($gid != "")

{

if(in_array($genreresults[genre], $gid))

$output .= " selected";

}

$output .= ">$genreresults[genre]</option>";

}

}

$output .= "

</td><td>"._GENREINFO."



Do you need the whole script? I know nothing about php. I tried to add the <option selected>character’s name</option> but it didn’t really work because I don’t know where to add it nor is it the right code.