PHP Templates and HTML Select

[Bruce]

For those of you using templates to keep your PHP and HTML code
separate.....

How do you handle a HTML Select statement when the initial option
selected needs to come from a database field?

--Bruce

[Andy Hassall]

Re: PHP Templates and HTML Select

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:21:54 GMT, Bruce <brucev2@hotmai l.com> wrote:
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>For those of you using templates to keep your PHP and HTML code
>separate.... .
>
>How do you handle a HTML Select statement when the initial option
>selected needs to come from a database field?[/color]

Well, depends on the templating system. I use Smarty, so I use:

<http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.functi on.html.options .php>

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[rush]

Re: PHP Templates and HTML Select

"Bruce" <brucev2@hotmai l.com> wrote in message
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> For those of you using templates to keep your PHP and HTML code
> separate.....
>
> How do you handle a HTML Select statement when the initial option
> selected needs to come from a database field?[/color]

With TemplateTamer, I usually have template along these lines:

<select name="optionCho oser">
<!--NAME:OPTION-->
<option value="{OPTIONV ALUE}" {OPTIONSELECTED }>{OPTIONNAME} </option>
<!--END:OPTION-->
</select>

And then in logic file:

foreach ($options as $optValue => $optName) {
if ($optValue == $selectedValue)
$selected = 'SELECTED';
else
$selected= '';
$opt[] = array(
'OPTIONVALUE' => $optValue ,
'OPTIONNAME' => $optName,
'OPTIONSELECTED '=> $selected
);
}


You can see more on that example at:

http://www.templatetamer.org/index.php?SimpleListboxExample

rush
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