Pre-selected drop-down menu choices onload - help!

[caspernova]

i know this is an odd question... but does anyone know how to pre-select a certain choice from a drop down menu when you enter a page based on the link that the page came from? like, if there were a choice of cars, and when you clicked on one, say "Chevy", you were sent to "sell.htm#dropdown:Chevy", and when you got to the page, "Chevy" was preselected from the drop-down menu... (the part in bold is what i'm not sure about, but you get the idea.) does anyone know how to set this up, if it's possible?

[kgt]

This is doable but depends on the actual page and code involved. Basically, you do this using PHP.

 

URL:

 

sell.php?selected=chevy

 

sell.php

<select name="manufacturers">
<option value="chevy"<?php echo $_GET['selected'] == 'chevy' ? ' selected' : ''; ?>>Chevy</option>
<option value="ford"<?php echo $_GET['selected'] == 'ford' ? ' selected' : ''; ?>>Ford</option>
</select>

 

The exact method will depend on the code.

[boxtel]

This is doable but depends on the actual page and code involved. Basically, you do this using PHP.

 

URL:

 

sell.php?selected=chevy

 

sell.php

<select name="manufacturers">
<option value="chevy"<?php echo $_GET['selected'] == 'chevy' ? ' selected' : ''; ?>>Chevy</option>
<option value="ford"<?php echo $_GET['selected'] == 'ford' ? ' selected' : ''; ?>>Ford</option>
</select>

 

The exact method will depend on the code.

 

 

I do this for my product types box:

 

if (isset($_GET['type'])) {

$typeset = $_GET['type'];

} elseif (isset($the_product_info['products_type'])) {

$typeset = $the_product_info['products_type'];

} else {

$typeset = '';

}

 

 

and for the dropdown:

 

tep_draw_pull_down_menu('type', $types_array, $typeset , 'onChange="this.form.submit();" ') .

[caspernova]

This is doable but depends on the actual page and code involved. Basically, you do this using PHP.

 

URL:

 

sell.php?selected=chevy

 

sell.php

<select name="manufacturers">
<option value="chevy"<?php echo $_GET['selected'] == 'chevy' ? ' selected' : ''; ?>>Chevy</option>
<option value="ford"<?php echo $_GET['selected'] == 'ford' ? ' selected' : ''; ?>>Ford</option>
</select>

 

The exact method will depend on the code.

kgt - THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! Your code worked perfectly! I am so happy to make this little improvement to my site... much thanks