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Old 05-13-2005, 06:46 PM   #1
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PHP: html Form Select function problem


I've been trying to figure this out for the past couple of days, but I'm stumped. I'm writing a simple function that will create a select box for an HTML form using data from a mysql database. I want to be able to give the function 3 variables and have it create the options for the select. Here is what I have so far
PHP Code:
function select_values($table,$visible,$id){
    
$query sprintf("SELECT * from $table");
    
$result mysql_query($query);
        
query_check($result);
        
$visible strtoupper($visible);
        
$id strtoupper($id);
    while(
$row mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
                    
$id $row['$id'];
                    
$visible $row['$visible'];
                    echo 
"<option value=\"$id\">$visible</option>\n";
        }
        exit;

And here is the call to it in my page
PHP Code:
            <?php select_values(MB,MB_DESC,MB_ID);?>
The echo statement works except the variables do not display. I get this
<option value=""></option>
in the source of my document.
If I replace $id and $visible with MB_ID and MB_DESC inside the function it works flawlessly.

Thanks for you help
 
Old 05-13-2005, 07:02 PM   #2
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I figured it out simple simple simple, just needed to not put the variables in quotes.
 
Old 05-15-2005, 08:23 PM   #3
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You mean like this?

PHP Code:
echo "<option value=\"" $id "\">" $visible "</option>\n"
 
  


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