Why does my variable only contain the 1st word of a Dropdown Option?

[djburg42]

Hi again all....

I'm back with yet another question. I have a dropdown in my script(The dropdown is populated by a function) that contains 3 words. When I go to insert the selected option into MYSql, for some reason, it only picks up the first word of the 3.

For example, let's say that the drop down listed types of vehicles. In this case, the selected option was "Dodge Grand Caravan". When I echo the variable "vehicle" from the function, all I get in return is "Dodge".

Any suggestions?

Thanks as always!

[httpwebwitch]

do you have the <option> value in quotes?

[jatar_k]

I would assume it is the space that is tripping it up but a look at a snippet of code might help.

<added>httpwebwitch, quicker and sharper ;)

[DigitalSorceress]

Another approach is to use the "value" value

<select name="foo">
 <option value="">PLEASE SELECT SOMETHING</option>
 <option value="Foo Bar">Foo Bar</option>
 <option value="Foo Bar baz qux etc">Nice Description</option>
</select>

[djburg42]

Thanks for the input all...Sorry about forgetting the code snippets....

Here is the function...

function vehicle($dropdownname,$tablename)
{
db_connect();

$result = mysql_query("Select * from " . $tablename . " Order by Name");

if (!$result)
{
die('Invalid formation of select query in displaydropdownvalues(): ' . mysql_error());
}

echo "<select name=" . $dropdownname . ">";
echo "<option value='' selected></option>";

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_BOTH))
{
echo "<option value=" . $row[1] . ">" . $row[1] . "</option>";
}

echo "</select>";

mysql_free_result($result);

mysql_close();
}

Here is where I call and display it in the table...

<tr>
<td colspan="2"><label for="vehiclename">Vehicle:</label></td>
<td colspan="2"> <name="vehiclename" id="vehiclename" tabindex="3"/><?php vehicle("vehicle", "Name");?></td>
</tr>

Then when I load it into the query for insert into MySQL, I only get the first word. I know it has something to do with the space, but not sure how to correct it....

[Timotheos]

So try what httpwebwitch mentioned.

echo "<option value=\"" . $row[1] . "\">" . $row[1] . "</option>";

[djburg42]

Doh!

Thanks httpwebwitch and Timotheos...I missed that....