Question & Answer: Can someone explain to me the syntax and write the code to retain the value for my drop down array in HTML and PHP…..

Can someone explain to me the syntax and write the code to retain the value for my drop down array in HTML and PHP

Php portion:

<?php

$COL_array = array(
‘AK – Anchorage’ => 131.046,
‘AK – Fairbanks’ => 138.45,
‘AK – Juneau’ => 140.675,
‘AK – Kodiak’ => 128.805,
‘AL – Anniston-Calhoun County’ => 92.862,
‘AL – Auburn-Opelika’ => 99.881,
‘AL – Birmingham’ => 87.181,
‘AL – Decatur-Hartselle’ => 91.972,
‘AL – Dothan’ => 92.048,
‘AL – Florence’ => 92.006,
‘AL – Huntsville’ => 94.996,
‘AL – Mobile’ => 92.168,
‘AL – Montgomery’ => 97.07,
‘AR – Conway’ => 87.571,
‘AR – Fayetteville’ => 86.254,
‘AR – Hot Springs’ => 94.849,
‘AR – Jonesboro’ => 89.333,
‘AR – Little Rock-North Little Rock’ => 96.453,
‘AZ – Flagstaff’ => 112.498,
‘AZ – Lake Havasu City’ => 108.865,
‘AZ – Phoenix’ => 94.09,
‘AZ – Prescott-Prescott Valley’ => 100.78,
‘AZ – Sierra Vista’ => 99.534,
‘AZ – Tucson’ => 95.407,
‘CA – Bakersfield’ => 97.294,
‘CA – Fresno’ => 110.931,
‘CA – Los Angeles-Long Beach’ => 131.557,
‘CA – Oakland’ => 136.176,
‘CA – Orange County’ => 143.256,
‘CA – Palm Springs’ => 122.346,
‘CA – Riverside City’ => 111.876,
‘CA – San Diego’ => 130.876,
‘CA – San Francisco’ => 161.508,
‘CA – San Jose’ => 152.657,
‘CA – Truckee-Nevada County’ => 145.179,
‘CO – Colorado Springs’ => 93.104,
‘CO – Denver’ => 105.063,
‘CO – Glenwood Springs’ => 109.033,
‘CO – Grand Junction’ => 99.176,
‘CO – Gunnison’ => 113.621,
‘CO – Pueblo’ => 86.472,
‘CT – Hartford’ => 123.307,
‘CT – New Haven’ => 127.827,
‘CT – Stamford’ => 147.922,
‘DC – Washington-Arlington-Alexandria’ => 147.017,
‘DE – Dover’ => 101.021,
‘DE – Wilmington’ => 107.972,
‘FL – Bradenton’ => 96.856,
‘FL – Cape Coral-Fort Myers’ => 95.501,
‘FL – Daytona Beach’ => 96.206,
‘FL – Fort Lauderdale’ => 109.924,
‘FL – Gainesville’ => 99.454,
‘FL – Jacksonville’ => 95.155,
‘FL – Miami-Dade County’ => 108.457,
‘FL – Orlando’ => 96.925,
‘FL – Palm Coast-Flagler County’ => 90.108,
‘FL – Punta Gorda-Charlotte Co’ => 93.751,
‘FL – Sarasota’ => 99.864,
‘FL – Tampa’ => 91.501,
‘FL – Vero Beach-Indian River’ => 97.827,
‘GA – Albany’ => 91.139,
‘GA – Atlanta’ => 99.104,
‘GA – Augusta-Aiken’ => 92.059,
‘GA – Douglas’ => 90.088,
‘GA – Duluth-Gwinnett County’ => 98.708,
‘GA – Marietta’ => 96.297,
‘GA – Savannah’ => 91.5,
‘GA – Valdosta’ => 95.022,
‘HI – Honolulu’ => 167.163,
‘IA – Ames’ => 95.653,
‘IA – Burlington’ => 92.908,
‘IA – Cedar Rapids’ => 93.39,
‘IA – Davenport-Moline-Rock Is’ => 98.062,
‘IA – Des Moines’ => 90.504,
‘IA – Dubuque’ => 94.449,
‘IA – Iowa City’ => 101.549,
‘IA – Mason City’ => 93.305,
‘IA – Waterloo-Cedar Falls’ => 93.072,
‘ID – Boise’ => 94.573,
‘ID – Idaho Falls’ => 88.256,
‘ID – Twin Falls’ => 90.384,
‘IL – Carbondale’ => 94.396,
‘IL – Champaign-Urbana’ => 99.063,
‘IL – Chicago’ => 114.111,
‘IL – Danville’ => 89.335,
‘IL – Decatur’ => 90.728,
‘IL – Galesburg’ => 91.217,
‘IL – Joliet-Will County’ => 100.117,
‘IL – Peoria’ => 95.642,
‘IL – Quincy’ => 95.152,
‘IL – Rockford’ => 89.872,
‘IL – Springfield’ => 89.597,
‘IN – Elkhart-Goshen’ => 93.409,
‘IN – Evansville’ => 94.097,
‘IN – Fort Wayne-Allen County’ => 95.305,
‘IN – Lafayette’ => 91.959,
‘IN – Muncie’ => 88.352,
‘IN – Richmond’ => 85.668,
‘IN – South Bend’ => 92.687,
‘KS – Dodge City’ => 92.812,
‘KS – Garden City’ => 96.178,
‘KS – Hutchinson’ => 92.927,
‘KS – Manhattan’ => 94.696,
‘KS – Salina’ => 88.374,
‘KS – Topeka’ => 93.491,
‘KS – Wichita’ => 91.707,
‘KY – Covington’ => 90.091,
‘KY – Lexington’ => 91.926,
‘KY – Louisville’ => 92.535,
‘KY – Paducah’ => 92.909,
‘LA – Baton Rouge’ => 92.768,
‘LA – Hammond’ => 92.387,
‘LA – Houma-Terrebonne Parish’ => 97.78,
‘LA – Lafayette’ => 99.465,
‘LA – Lake Charles’ => 94.996,
‘LA – Monroe’ => 93.577,
‘LA – Shreveport-Bossier City’ => 99.056,
‘LA – Slidell-St. Tammany Parish’ => 95.77,
‘MA – Boston’ => 137.082,
‘MA – Pittsfield’ => 102.146,
‘MD – Baltimore’ => 117.538,
‘MD – Bethesda-Gaithersburg-Frederick’ => 131.942,
‘ME – Portland’ => 112.529,
‘MI – Ann Arbor’ => 102.232,
‘MI – Detroit’ => 95.844,
‘MI – Kalamazoo’ => 87.351,
‘MN – Mankato’ => 95.082,
‘MN – Minneapolis’ => 111.592,
‘MN – Rochester’ => 105.254,
‘MN – St. Cloud’ => 95.704,
‘MN – St. Paul’ => 110.355,
‘MO – Columbia’ => 91.473,
‘MO – Jefferson City’ => 97.608,
‘MO – Joplin’ => 90.498,
‘MO – Kansas City’ => 99.799,
‘MO – Springfield’ => 89.806,
‘MO – St. Louis’ => 91.043,
‘MS – Hattiesburg’ => 93.234,
‘MS – Jackson’ => 96.881,
‘MS – Pascagoula’ => 91.801,
‘MS – Tupelo’ => 88.808,
‘MT – Bozeman’ => 99.166,
‘MT – Kalispell’ => 100.131,
‘NC – Asheville’ => 101.424,
‘NC – Burlington’ => 95.832,
‘NC – Chapel Hill’ => 115.338,
‘NC – Charlotte’ => 92.743,
‘NC – Dare County’ => 108.623,
‘NC – Durham’ => 90.81,
‘NC – Fayetteville’ => 96.197,
‘NC – Gastonia’ => 91.667,
‘NC – Greenville’ => 96.325,
‘NC – Jacksonville’ => 96.541,
‘NC – Kinston’ => 93.589,
‘NC – Marion-McDowell County’ => 94.329,
‘NC – Raleigh’ => 92.842,
‘NC – Thomasville-Lexington’ => 89.105,
‘NC – Wilmington’ => 98.681,
‘NC – Winston-Salem’ => 90.181,
‘ND – Fargo-Moorhead’ => 94.056,
‘ND – Minot’ => 104.066,
‘NE – Hastings’ => 92.887,
‘NE – Lincoln’ => 93.232,
‘NE – Omaha’ => 88.626,
‘NH – Manchester’ => 120.482,
‘NJ – Bergen-Passaic’ => 128.224,
‘NJ – Middlesex-Monmouth’ => 124.492,
‘NJ – Newark-Elizabeth’ => 131.739,
‘NM – Carlsbad’ => 97.486,
‘NM – Farmington’ => 97.856,
‘NM – Las Cruces’ => 99.018,
‘NM – Los Alamos’ => 106.236,
‘NM – Rio Rancho’ => 97.375,
‘NV – Las Vegas’ => 98.764,
‘NV – Reno-Sparks’ => 92.201,
‘NY – Albany’ => 110.637,
‘NY – Buffalo’ => 99.511,
‘NY – Dutchess County’ => 122.633,
‘NY – Ithaca’ => 103.892,
‘NY – Nassau County’ => 139.091,
‘NY – New York (Brooklyn)’ => 185.015,
‘NY – New York (Manhattan)’ => 223.425,
‘NY – New York (Queens)’ => 154.873,
‘NY – Plattsburgh’ => 101.316,
‘NY – Rochester’ => 98.845,
‘OH – Akron’ => 98.984,
‘OH – Ashland’ => 88.874,
‘OH – Cincinnati’ => 92.902,
‘OH – Cleveland’ => 99.221,
‘OH – Columbus’ => 91.686,
‘OH – Dayton’ => 93.494,
‘OH – Findlay’ => 96.912,
‘OH – Lima’ => 93.6,
‘OH – Wooster’ => 89.819,
‘OH – Youngstown-Warren’ => 90.685,
‘OK – Ardmore’ => 84.017,
‘OK – Edmond’ => 93.842,
‘OK – Enid’ => 93.052,
‘OK – Muskogee’ => 87.529,
‘OK – Norman’ => 90.983,
‘OK – Oklahoma City’ => 91.072,
‘OK – Ponca City’ => 89.808,
‘OK – Pryor Creek’ => 85.206,
‘OK – Stillwater’ => 92.122,
‘OK – Tulsa’ => 89.581,
‘OR – Eugene’ => 109.547,
‘OR – Klamath Falls’ => 98.023,
‘OR – Portland’ => 117.53,
‘PA – Allentown’ => 105.735,
‘PA – Harrisburg’ => 102.365,
‘PA – Indiana County’ => 94.535,
‘PA – Johnstown’ => 94.316,
‘PA – Philadelphia’ => 123.645,
‘PA – Pittsburgh’ => 94.863,
‘PA – Williamsport-Lycoming Co’ => 95.472,
‘PA – York County’ => 102.912,
‘RI – Providence’ => 125.148,
‘SC – Anderson’ => 90.147,
‘SC – Beaufort’ => 99.282,
‘SC – Camden’ => 98.57,
‘SC – Charleston-N Charleston’ => 97.313,
‘SC – Columbia’ => 94.632,
‘SC – Greenville’ => 92.506,
‘SC – Hilton Head Island’ => 115.133,
‘SC – Myrtle Beach’ => 95.526,
‘SC – Sumter’ => 93.266,
‘SD – Pierre’ => 100.449,
‘SD – Sioux Falls’ => 95.677,
‘TN – Chattanooga’ => 93.894,
‘TN – Cleveland’ => 92.591,
‘TN – Cookeville’ => 86.161,
‘TN – Dyersburg’ => 89.267,
‘TN – Jackson-Madison County’ => 90.4,
‘TN – Knoxville’ => 89.482,
‘TN – Memphis’ => 84.449,
‘TN – Morristown’ => 91.306,
‘TN – Murfreesboro-Smyrna’ => 87.628,
‘TN – Nashville-Franklin’ => 89.971,
‘TX – Amarillo’ => 94.336,
‘TX – Athens-Henderson County’ => 89.163,
‘TX – Austin’ => 93.236,
‘TX – Beaumont’ => 97.581,
‘TX – Brazoria County’ => 86.962,
‘TX – Brownsville’ => 86.534,
‘TX – Bryan-College Station’ => 92.593,
‘TX – Conroe’ => 90.639,
‘TX – Corpus Christi’ => 90.083,
‘TX – Dallas’ => 96.898,
‘TX – Denton’ => 92.807,
‘TX – El Paso’ => 91.73,
‘TX – Fort Worth’ => 93.314,
‘TX – Harlingen’ => 81.551,
‘TX – Houston’ => 90.899,
‘TX – Lubbock’ => 89.516,
‘TX – McAllen’ => 84.994,
‘TX – Midland’ => 95.602,
‘TX – Nacogdoches’ => 95.478,
‘TX – Odessa’ => 90.061,
‘TX – Paris’ => 92.402,
‘TX – Plano’ => 96.052,
‘TX – Round Rock’ => 91.07,
‘TX – San Angelo’ => 89.559,
‘TX – San Antonio’ => 92.909,
‘TX – San Marcos’ => 87.979,
‘TX – Seguin’ => 92.309,
‘TX – Sherman-Denison’ => 88.188,
‘TX – Temple’ => 85.912,
‘TX – Texarkana’ => 90.48,
‘TX – Tyler’ => 95.044,
‘TX – Waco’ => 84.751,
‘TX – Weatherford’ => 92.033,
‘TX – Wichita Falls’ => 89.416,
‘UT – Cedar City’ => 88.215,
‘UT – Ogden’ => 90.43,
‘UT – Provo-Orem’ => 90.297,
‘UT – Salt Lake City’ => 95.081,
‘UT – St. George’ => 91.449,
‘VA – Blacksburg’ => 95.031,
‘VA – Charlottesville’ => 104.679,
‘VA – Danville City’ => 91.795,
‘VA – Hampton Roads-SE Virginia’ => 104.948,
‘VA – Harrisonburg’ => 97.283,
‘VA – Lexington-Buena Vista-Rockbridge’ => 93.982,
‘VA – Lynchburg’ => 91.908,
‘VA – Richmond’ => 99.609,
‘VA – Roanoke’ => 93.316,
‘VA – Staunton-Augusta County’ => 94.97,
‘VA – Winchester’ => 102.415,
‘VT – Burlington-Chittenden Co’ => 121.789,
‘WA – Everett’ => 109.571,
‘WA – Kennewick-Richland-Pasco’ => 98.265,
‘WA – Moses Lake’ => 93.009,
‘WA – Olympia’ => 104.985,
‘WA – Seattle’ => 115.688,
‘WA – Spokane’ => 94.501,
‘WA – Tacoma’ => 106.179,
‘WA – Vancouver’ => 98.642,
‘WA – Yakima’ => 92.596,
‘WI – Appleton’ => 93.54,
‘WI – Eau Claire’ => 91.274,
‘WI – Janesville’ => 97.755,
‘WI – Madison’ => 107.069,
‘WI – Marshfield’ => 96.851,
‘WI – Milwaukee-Waukesha’ => 99.57,
‘WI – Wausau’ => 95.104,
‘WV – Charleston’ => 94.088,
‘WV – Martinsburg-Berkeley County’ => 91.859,
‘WV – Morgantown’ => 105.14,
‘WY – Cheyenne’ => 95.86
);

$key = null;
$town1 = isset($_REQUEST[‘town1’]) ? $_REQUEST[‘town1’]: null;

?>

HTML Portion:

<html>
<form>

<select name=”town1″>
<? foreach ($COL_array as $key =>$value) { ?>
<option value=”<? echo($key); ?>”><? echo($key); ?></option>
<? ;} ?>
</select>

</form>
</html>