I have a form that updates a current players information. In that form I have a drop list of teams that is populated from a mysql query. I would like the drop list to show the current selection in the database. I can't seem to get the syntax quite right because of my lack of experience.
php code to get the players information from the database
$requested_id = mysql_real_escape_string($_GET['id']);
$sql = "SELECT * FROM playerstest WHERE ID = '{$requested_id}' LIMIT 1";
$query = mysql_query($sql) or die("<pre>".mysql_error()."\n".$sql."</pre>");
$edit_rows = mysql_fetch_assoc($query);
form code populating the list and echoing the options
<?php $query_team = mysql_query("SELECT `teamname` FROM `teams` ORDER BY `teamname` ASC");
echo "<select name='teamname' id='teamname'>\n";
while ($data = mysql_fetch_array($query_team, MYSQL_ASSOC))
{
echo "<option value='{$data['teamname']}'>{$data['teamname']}</option>\n";
}
echo "</select>\n";
?>
I think it should be something like below but can't quite get there
{
echo "<option value='{$data['teamname']}<?php if($edit_rows['teamname']=='{$data['teamname']}') echo "selected";?> '>{$data['teamname']}</option>\n";}
echo "</select>\n";
