Comments on: Using PHP to generate select boxes

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:36:46 +0000

@Julie – I’ve updated the script to quote the keys

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:49:44 +0000

Great script!! I too would love to see the code that builds the value-option multi-dimensional array so I can tweak it. The problem with the existing array output is there needs to be quotes around the array keys:

currently generates:
$multi = array(AF => “Afghanistan”, AL => “Albania”, DZ => “Algeria”, AD => “Andorra”);

correct PHP array syntax should be:
$multi = array(“AF” => “Afghanistan”, “AL” => “Albania”, “DZ” => “Algeria”, “AD” => “Andorra”);

For the most part it would still work but in my case trying to use an array of countries causes a syntax error on country codes “AS” and “DO” because PHP doesn’t see them as strings and tries to interpret them as commands.

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:38:19 +0000

Thanks for the code to convert an array to a select list, but could you post the function you use to convert the selectbox to the value-option pairs MD array (Selectbox Converter) used via the form? THAT is what I really need.

Thanks!

http://muffinresearch.co.uk/code/php/select2array/