PHP – Populate HTML Select Element

There is many ways to populate vales into a HTML select element. Here is one example I’ve come up with.

PHP Code Example

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<select size="1" name="szFooBar[]" multiple="multiple">
< ?php
$i=0;
while($obResults = mysql_fetch_row($saResults))
{
    if ($_POST['szFooBar'] == $obResults[0])
    { $szSelectedValue[$i] = " selected=\"selected\""; }
    else { $szSelectedValue[$i] = ""; }
 
    printf("<option value=\"%s\"%s>%s\n",$obResults[0], $szSelectedValue[$i], $obResults[1]);
    $i++;
}
?>							
</select>

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