I have the following code to produce a drop down.

It has some Options with more than one word ie. "Desktop Products"

but when i am reading the form value using

param('technology');

it returns only "Desktop" not "Desktop Products"

Source Code follows

calling the function like this

print "<select name='technology'>";
    $tech_selected=param('technology');
    &print_option('t',$tech_selected);
print "</td></tr>";

sub print_option{

 my ($opt,$selected)=@_;
 my ($arr_val,$where,$ind,$sql);
 my ($dbh,$sth);
 
 if ($opt eq 't'){ # Build Tech Drop down
    $sql="select distinct(technology) from t_pomap";
 }else{ # Build NPO Drop down
    $sql="select distinct(npo) from t_pomap";
 }
 $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:Pg:dbname=test', 'db_user', '');
 $sth=$dbh->prepare ($sql);
 $sth->execute();
 $ind=0;
 while(my @options=$sth->fetchrow_array()){
   if ($selected eq $options[0]){
     print "<option value=$options[0] selected=$options[0]>$options[0]
+</option>";
   } else {
     print "<option value=$options[0] >$options[0]</option>";
   }
 }#endwhile
 $dbh->disconnect(); 
}#endsub

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Edited by davorg: tidied formatting.

In reply to Creating Multi-word Options by beginr

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