Comments on: Creating a States Table in MySQL http://www.tech-evangelist.com/2008/06/02/mysql-states-table/ Technical Articles, Musings and Opinions from Tech-Evangelist Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:09:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: D.Shaun Morgan http://www.tech-evangelist.com/2008/06/02/mysql-states-table/comment-page-1/#comment-22586 D.Shaun Morgan Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:58:31 +0000 http://www.tech-evangelist.com/2008/06/02/mysql-states-table/#comment-22586 Below is cleaner version of this code this code. It is still the same code but by putting your html elements into a variable allows the desiger much flexibility with the code. <option value="0"> - state not selected - <?php $sql = "SELECT state_code, state_name FROM states ORDER BY state_code"; $rs = mysql_query($sql); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($rs)) { $options ="".$row['state_code']." - ".$row['state_name']."\n "; } ?> $options = implode($options); <select name="state"> <option value="0"> - state not selected - echo $options; </select> Below is cleaner version of this code this code. It is still the same code but by putting your html elements into a variable allows the desiger much flexibility with the code.

<option value=”0″>
- state not selected -
<?php
$sql = “SELECT state_code, state_name FROM states ORDER BY state_code”;
$rs = mysql_query($sql);

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($rs))
{
$options =”".$row['state_code'].” – “.$row['state_name'].”\n “;
}
?>
$options = implode($options);

<select name=”state”>

<option value=”0″>
- state not selected -
echo $options;

</select>

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