database to combobox

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Brakanjan
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database to combobox

Post by Brakanjan »

Hi

I'm (still) new to php and html and need to do the following:

I have a database and I get values by

while ($R = ibase_fetch_row($Q))
{
echo "$R[0]";
}

Now I want to insert those values in a combobox so the user can select them again. I've tried:

print "<Select>"
while ($R = ibase_fetch_row($Q))
{
print"<Option>";
}
print "</Select>"

As far as I can image 'Print' writes directly to html and you can insert html code directly from php. If 'print' doesn't do the job, what does?

tx
uncoDMX
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Post by uncoDMX »

you could do it this way :

echo '<select>';
while ($R = ibase_fetch_row($Q))
{
echo '<option>', $R[0], '</option>';
}
echo '</select>';

but there are manny things you have to do to make it work right.

read some documentation about forms
Brakanjan
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Post by Brakanjan »

tx for the reply
any recommendations? (about documentation of forms and php)
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