I have 3 pages, register.php, view.php and edit.php
I want to keep dropdown option in edit.php It takes the first option.
My pages:
REGISTER.PHP
<form id="base" method="post" action="insert.php">
<input data-validate="number" id="contract" name="contract">
<input data-validate="text" id="client" name="client">
<select name="step">
<option value="option1">OPTION1</option>
<option value="option2">OPTION2</option>
</select>
<button data-validate="submit">Register</button>
</form>EDIT.PHP
<form id="base" name="base" method="post" action="">
<input data-validate="number" value="<?php echo $contract; ?>" readonly="true" id="contract">
<input data-validate="text" value="<?php echo $client; ?>" id="client">
<select name="step">
<option value="option1">Option1</option>
<option value="option2">Option2</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Change">
</form></div>
Try something like this, assuming $step to be the value from the database.
<form id="base" name="base" method="post" action="">
<input data-validate="number" value="<?php echo $contract; ?>" readonly="true" id="contract">
<input data-validate="text" value="<?php echo $client; ?>" id="client">
<select name="step">
<?php
$options = array("option1" => "Option1", "option2" => "Option2");
foreach($options as $v => $c)
echo "<option value='$v'" . ($step == $v ? " selected='selected'" : "") . ">$c</option>";
?>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Change">
</form>
You could try this for each option in the selection but it could ve been easier if your select was dynamic:
...... >OPTION 1 repeat this with all you options although its much cleaner to use a function which takes the option value as an argumant