> Is it possible to have a function which echoes the values as they are > read from the database?
something like.... function init_auth_list() { print "<select name=author> <option value=\"\">select the name of the author</option\>"; $query="select name from author order by name"; $result=pg_exec($GLOBALS["db"],$query); $numrows=pg_numrows($result); $i=0; while($i<$numrows) { $row=pg_fetch_row($result,$i); print "option name=\"".$row[0]."\">$row[0]</option>"; $i++; } print "</select>"; } > > I tried doing something of this sort..but didn't work.. > Any suggestions? > Thanks in advance, > Mukta > hope it works, this is just from the top of my head... -skate- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php