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.

sam

while you're using PHP to generate HTML - what you're really asking is how to make an option appear selected.

do you have a link to the page that is built by this code? it would make it a little easier to work backwards.

Lyssa

my site isn't done yet but I know this site use the same script. http://www.fictionised.net/
You want to see the page that use this code? You have to log in and click on the add new story link. You can use my account. user=aly pass=fictionised

Bigjohn

You just need to add the word 'selected' to the one you want listed - like this:
so you have to figure out how to do the 'selected' test inside this loop:
because you have to make $output .="<option selected value=

John

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Scribe

aye, big john is right

Lyssa

It selected the whole list. How do I make it select only one thing in the list? Also how do I hide the list? I tried type=\"hidden\" but it didn't work.