How to get multiple columns of data inside a combobox in PHP?

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Hi all,

Let's say I put a combobox in a web page and that I want to show the project ID and the project name in each row of that combobox (I can have the same name for different projects but a unique ID).

I'd like to be able to use a "tab" ("\t") to separate the columns of the combobox options, but even I've tried it it only puts a space there.

as an example:

PHP

$return_string[$i] = $row['id']."\t::\t".$row['name'];

But this shows:

1234 :: name of the project

It could be the first tab would need only one space, but not the second one...

What am I doing wrong here?

And in case it is not possible to put a tab inside a string to be shown afterwards...

How could I do it?

Thank you very much!

What I have tried:

Using '\t', "t" standalone without the other text, "\t::\t" too...

Posted 10-Aug-19 5:28am

Joan M

Updated 10-Aug-19 9:06am

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Richard MacCutchan 10-Aug-19 11:37am

I suspect the Combobox does not recognise the tab character. What happens if you display the text in a normal text field?

Joan M 10-Aug-19 13:21pm

Exactly the same... how strange...

Richard MacCutchan 11-Aug-19 4:30am

I ran a simple PHP script to print some text, and the tabs worked fine. As you say, how strange.

Joan M 11-Aug-19 4:41am

I must be making something wrong... Thank you I'll retry...

Richard MacCutchan 11-Aug-19 5:41am

The documentation states that a string surrounded by double quotes (as you have in your example) will interpret \t correctly. I think you need to do some deep debugging - good luck.

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Gerry Schmitz · Answer 1 · 2019-08-10T09:06:00

Solution 1

Pad the "left column" out to the width you want and concatenate with the column to the right. You can even put a "|" in between. Mono font maybe.

Posted 10-Aug-19 9:06am

Gerry Schmitz

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Joan M 11-Aug-19 4:40am

Sorry, but I'm very newbie here... can you explain it a little bit more, give some small sample or a link to follow?

thanks!