Hey all,
I have a website where users come, sign up, and manage a few small portfolios (not stocks). As of now, users can successfully view all their portfolios, but I am making a "My Account" page, where users can change the information they signed up with (name, state, country, zip, password, etc.). This page works perfectly fine, it updates everything, it's just that when users come I have three slight problems:
1) When users sign up, they choose a state. Let's say I signed up with Alabama...it has "AL" stored in my database. Now, when users go to the "My Account" page, how do I make the dropdown menu automatically scroll down and have preselected the "AL" selection (Alabama)?
2) Same problem happens with Country, if I figure out how to fix the state, this will be easy to fix
3) In the "My Account" page, I also allow users to change their password. However, when they come to the page, the password box is blank, and they are FORCED to type in a new password to update their account information. How do I make it fetch the password from the database, and have it in the textbox? I use MD5 encryption, does this mean I can't decrypt it and have it appear (as a password) in the box? With all my other textfields, this worked, but with the password, when I type:
[syntax=php]<input type="password" name="passwd" value="<?php echo $password;?>" maxlength="10">[/syntax]
it doesn't output the password in the box, it is just a full textbox and probably, when decrypted, says exactly what was in the initial value box (<?php echo $password;?>). How can I get around this?
Thanks a lot guys! Any help would be appreciated!
-BUMPle.
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3. Give them an option (checkbox?) whether to change their password or not.
Changing of a password is a big deal, i'd actually suggest a whole page for that (ie. account.php?page=changepass).
for the scrolling, theres a default value or something like that, check around under input tag attributes or something
Changing of a password is a big deal, i'd actually suggest a whole page for that (ie. account.php?page=changepass).
for the scrolling, theres a default value or something like that, check around under input tag attributes or something
Thanks a lot, I'll work on that...
as for the first two...
It looks like this, but a bit abridged:
[syntax=php]<select name="state" size="1">
<option value="ZZ"></option>
<option value="null">-- UNITED STATES --</option>
<option value="AL">Alabama</option>
<option value="AK">Alaska</option>
<option value="AZ">Arizona</option>
<option value="AR">Arkansas</option>
<option value="CA">California</option>
<option value="CO">Colorado</option>
<option value="CT">Connecticut</option>
<option value="DE">Delaware</option>
<option value="FL">Florida</option>
</select>[/syntax]
The variable name is $state, so in $state, there is stored "AL". How exactly would I tell this to scroll down to "AL"?
Thanks a lot!
-BUMPle.
as for the first two...
It looks like this, but a bit abridged:
[syntax=php]<select name="state" size="1">
<option value="ZZ"></option>
<option value="null">-- UNITED STATES --</option>
<option value="AL">Alabama</option>
<option value="AK">Alaska</option>
<option value="AZ">Arizona</option>
<option value="AR">Arkansas</option>
<option value="CA">California</option>
<option value="CO">Colorado</option>
<option value="CT">Connecticut</option>
<option value="DE">Delaware</option>
<option value="FL">Florida</option>
</select>[/syntax]
The variable name is $state, so in $state, there is stored "AL". How exactly would I tell this to scroll down to "AL"?
Thanks a lot!
-BUMPle.
Wow, this is going to take some work. In HTML, to show the selected dropdown, you have to add selected="selected" to the correct <option>. That means you may have to add an IF statement to every single one of the option menus unless someone can come up with a better idea. The best woul probably be to put all the countries in an array, check which country they have, add the selected="selected" to that array value and then loop through the array.
Heres how to do it the first way:
As you can see, that would just suck.
So my idea would be this:
I can't test that right now because I'm at school but it seems like it would work. Good luck 
Heres how to do it the first way:
Code: Select all
<?php
$state = "INFO FROM DATABASE"; //eg: $state = "AL";
?>
<select name="state" size="1">
<option value="ZZ"></option>
<option value="null">-- UNITED STATES --</option>
<option value="AL"<?php if($state == "AL") {echo " selected="selected"";} ?>>Alabama</option>
<option value="AK"<?php if($state == "AK") {echo " selected="selected"";} ?>>Alaska</option>
<option value="AZ"<?php if($state == "AZ") {echo " selected="selected"";} ?>>Arizona</option>
</select>So my idea would be this:
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<?php
$statesArray = array(
"AL" => "Alabama",
"AK" => "Alaska",
"AZ" => "Arizona"
) //etc, etc
$state = "INFO FROM DATABASE"; //eg: $state = "AL";
?>
<select name="state" size="1">
<option value="ZZ"></option>
<option value="null">-- UNITED STATES --</option>
<?
foreach ($statesArray as $abv => $statename)
{
echo "<option value="$abv"";
if($abv == $state)
{
echo " selected="selected">";
}
else
{
echo ">";
}
echo $statename . "</option>";
}
?>
</select>