If I read this right, the data field actually contains "name1, name2, name3,
name4" in which case, you'll need to explode the field to access it's parts.
$vals=explode(", ", $DCD);
foreach ($vals as $val ) {
print "<option value='$val'>$val</option>\n";
}
"Robert Trembath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hello everyone,
>
> Ran into a problem trying to get this to work. I have multiple names in a
> mysql field (DCD_Access) that contains "name1, name2, name3, name4" and I
> want read this information as an array so I can use these values to
populate
> a pull-down list using a while or foreach loop. Below is the code I used,
> but I get the values as a single entry no matter what I try. This query
> brings a single result row "name1, name2, name3, name4". Here's the code:
>
> $result4 = mysql_query( "SELECT DCD_Access FROM userdb WHERE ID =
> '$user_ID'");
> $DCD = mysql_fetch_array ( $result4 );
>
> print " <td width='6%' valign=top>\n
> <div align='center'>\n
> <select name='LCompare'>\n
> <option value='none'>None</option>\n
> <option value='within'>Within Gel</option>\n";
> foreach ( $DCD as $val )
> {
> print "<option value='$val'>$val</option>\n";
> }
> print " </select></div>\n
> </td>\n";
>
> This returns HTML like:
>
> <td width='6%' valign=top>
> <div align='center'>
> <select name='LCompare'>
> <option value='none'>None</option>
> <option value='within'>Within Gel</option>
> <option value='name1, name2, name3, name4'>name1, name2,
name3,
> name4</option>
> <option value='name1, name2, name3, name4'>name1, name2,
name3,
> name4</option>
> <option value='name1, name2, name3, name4'>name1, name2,
name3,
> name4</option>
> <option value='name1, name2, name3, name4'>name1, name2,
name3,
> name4</option>
> </select>
> </div> </td>
>
> What I need is to get:
>
> <td width='6%' valign=top>
> <div align='center'>
> <select name='LCompare'>
> <option value='none'>None</option>
> <option value='within'>Within Gel</option>
> <option value='name1'>name1</option>
> <option value='name2'>name2</option>
> <option value='name3'>name3</option>
> <option value='name4'>name4</option>
> </select>
> </div> </td>
>
> Anyone know how to fix this?
> Robert
>
>
>
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