PHP - Drop Down Box Default

having a problem figuring out how to change the default on a drop down box to equal the users current timezone. So when they view it the drop box default is showing what their setting is atm. The problem is the value is differant from whats displayed. Is it possible to some how say if users time offset is equal to a option value set selected=""> to yes.

if not what is the idea behind this? Cant find a guide showing an example
In other drop down boxes where the value is the same as whats displayed I just simply created another value field at the top of the list and echo it in.
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<select name="gmt">

<option value="-28800">(GMT -0800) Pacific Time </option>
<option value="-25200">(GMT -0700) Mountain Time </option>
<option value="-21600">(GMT -0600) Central Time</option>
<option value="-18000">(GMT -0500) Eastern Time </option>

</select>

Okay, so, here's my dilemma. I'm wanting to have it so someone can edit an item in the database, but it is a dropdown menu for the options to choose from.

How do I make it so that the option that the item currently is is what the default showing is?

For instance, if the item is for a "warrior", it will show warrior already in the dropdown menu. However, I could go to the dropdown menu and select a different option if I wanted. The {{class}} doesn't seem to give that default. Right now, it just defaults to "All" regardless of what the item truly goes to, such as "warrior".

Thanks in advance!!

Here's what I have for the coding:


<tr><td width="20%">Class:</td><td><select name="class" value="{{class}}">
<option value="1" {{class1select}}>All</option>
<option value="2" {{class2select}}>Alchemist</option>
<option value="3" {{class3select}}>Assassin</option> 
<option value="4" {{class4select}}>Dark Arts</option>
<option value="5" {{class5select}}>Dark Paladin</option>
<option value="6" {{class6select}}>Entertainer</option>
<option value="7" {{class7select}}>Hunter</option>
<option value="8" {{class8select}}>Mage</option>
<option value="9" {{class9select}}>Monk</option>
<option value="10" {{class10select}}>Paladin</option>
<option value="11" {{class11select}}>Pirate</option>
<option value="12" {{class12select}}>Priest</option>
<option value="13" {{class13select}}>Psion</option>
<option value="14" {{class14select}}>Scholar</option>
<option value="15" {{class15select}}>Thief</option>
<option value="16" {{class16select}}>Warlock</option>
<option value="17" {{class17select}}>Warrior</option>
</select></td></tr>

I am working on a project that uses a drop down list to chose the category when inserting new data into the database. What I want to do now is make the drop down list default to the chosen category on the list records page and the update page. I have read several tutorials, but they all say that I have to list the options and then select the default. But since it is possible to add and remove categories, this approch won't work. I need the code to chose the correct category on the fly.

There are two tables, one that has the category ID and category name.  The second table has the data and the catid which is referenced to the category id in the first table.

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--
-- Table structure for table `categories`
--

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `categories`;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `categories` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `categories` varchar(37) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=40 ;

-- --------------------------------------------------------

--
-- Table structure for table `links`
--

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `links`;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `links` (
  `id` int(4) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `catid` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  `name` varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `url` varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `content` varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `catid` (`catid`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=35 ;


Then is the list records file, I have

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<?php
include ("db.php");
include ("menu.php");


$result = mysql_query("SELECT categories FROM categories") or die(mysql_error()); 
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { 
$categories=$row["categories"];
$options.= '<option value="'.$row['categories'].'">'.$row['categories'].'</option>';
};



$id = $_GET['id'];
$query="SELECT * FROM links ORDER BY catid ASC";
$result=mysql_query($query);

?>
<table width="65%" align="center" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>
<table width="100%" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<td colspan="7"><strong>List data from mysql </strong> </td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td align="center"><strong>Category ID</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Category ID</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Name</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>URL</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Content</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Update</strong></td>
<td align="center"><strong>Delete</strong></td>
</tr>
<?php
while($rows=mysql_fetch_array($result)){
?>
<tr>
<td>
<SELECT NAME=catid>
<OPTION>Categories</OPTION>
<?php echo $options; ?>
</SELECT>
</td>
<td><? echo $rows['catid']; ?></td>
<td><? echo $rows['name']; ?></td>
<td><a href="<? echo $rows['url']; ?>"><? echo $rows['url']; ?></a></td>
<td><? echo $rows['content']; ?></td>
<td align="center"><a href="update.php?id=<? echo $rows['id']; ?>">update</a></td>
<td align="center"><a href="delete.php?id=<? echo $rows['id']; ?>">delete</a></td>

</tr>
<?php
}
?>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php
mysql_close();
?>

So, how do I get this code
Code: [Select]
$result = mysql_query("SELECT categories FROM categories") or die(mysql_error());
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$categories=$row["categories"];
$options.= '<option value="'.$row['categories'].'">'.$row['categories'].'</option>';
};

<SELECT NAME=catid>
<OPTION>Categories</OPTION>
<?php echo $options; ?>
</SELECT>

to give me an output that will be

something like if catid exactly matches categories.id echo categories.categorie  ???

so far everything I have done produces either a default category of the last category,  the catid (which is a number), all of the categories (logical since catid will always be = id, or nothing.  How do I get just the category name? 

I will keep reading and try to figure this out, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

I have a few dropdown forums and would like it to select the current values that are requested.

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global $filename,$fileid,$filetype,$filedir,$fileby;
  global $months,$pg;


echo "<h2>Search Files</h2>";
echo "<p>";
  echo "<form name = 'File_Search' action = '#' method = 'POST'>";
echo "<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\"><tr>";
echo "<td>File Name<br><input type = 'text' name = 'name'></td><td>File Type<br><select name = 'type'>
<option value = '0'>All Types</option>
  <option value = 'o'>Official Files</option>
<option value = '1'>Quests</option>
  <option value = '2'>Graphic/Spritesheets</option>
  <option value = '3'>Entity/Scripts</option>
  <option value = '4'>Sound/Music</option>
  <option value = '5'>QuestPack/Programs</option>
  <option value = '6'>Miscellaneous</option>
  </select></td>";
  echo "<td>Order By<br><select name = 'order'>
  <option value = '0'>Last Updated</option>
  <option value = '1'>ID</option>
  <option value = '2'>Name</option>
  <option value = '3'>Downloads</option>
  <option value = '4'>Rating</option>
<option value = '5'>Points</option>
  <option value = '6'>Random</option>
  </select></td>";
  echo "<td>Acending?<br><select name = 'dir'><option value = '0'>False</option><option selected value = '1'>True</option></select></td>";
echo "</tr><tr><td rowspan = '4'><input type = 'submit' name = 'search' value = 'search'></td></tr></table></form>";
echo "</p>";

So if the $filetype equals 2 I want the dropdown box to show "Graphic/Spritesheets" by default. BTW Official Files is not actually a type so that's why I chose to give it a small letter o and will work the same way as All Types but run a different function.

$fileby is used for the OrderBy field.
$filedir is for the Acending field.
The other data is for the other parts of the script.

If you like you can give advice on the name's default because you may have a better method then what I have in my head.

Hi, I am trying to get the date and time that a particular table was last updated, which the code below does, but it doesn't seem to be putting it in the correct timezone, it is 5 hours behind, anyone know why this is? or how i can fix it? Thanks

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<?php
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
        $query = "SELECT UPDATE_TIME FROM information_schema.tables WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'tffdb' AND TABLE_NAME = 'test_team_points'";
        $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
        
        $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
echo $row['UPDATE_TIME'];

?>