problem with making <select> persists

problem with making <select> persists

Hello everyone ...

You''ll see ... i'm trying to do something, which is to make that the selected option of a <select> persist on a page reload ... This is the code of index.php

  1. <style type="text/css">
    form select{
        font-family: "lucida grande", tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
        font-size: 12px;
    }
    </style>

    <form name="form1" method="post" action="persistencia.php">
        <p>
          <select name="combo1" id="combo1">
            <option value="o1">option1</option>
            <option value="o2">option2</option>
            <option value="o3">option3</option>
            <option value="o4">option4</option>
            <option value="o5">option5</option>
            <option value="o6">option6</option>
            <option value="o7">option7</option>
            <option value="o8">option8</option>
          </select>
      </p>
        <p>
          <select name="combo2" id="combo2">
            <option value="o1">option1</option>
            <option value="o2">option2</option>
            <option value="o3">option3</option>
            <option value="o4">option4</option>
            <option value="o5">option5</option>
            <option value="o6">option6</option>
            <option value="o7">option7</option>
            <option value="o8">option8</option>
          </select>
      </p>
        <p>
          <select name="combo3" id="combo3">
            <option value="o1">option1</option>
            <option value="o2">option2</option>
            <option value="o3">option3</option>
            <option value="o4">option4</option>
            <option value="o5">option5</option>
            <option value="o6">option6</option>
            <option value="o7">option7</option>
            <option value="o8">option8</option>
          </select>
      </p>
        <p>
          <select name="combo4" id="combo4">
            <option value="o1">option1</option>
            <option value="o2">option2</option>
            <option value="o3">option3</option>
            <option value="o4">option4</option>
            <option value="o5">option5</option>
            <option value="o6">option6</option>
            <option value="o7">option7</option>
            <option value="o8">option8</option>
          </select>
      </p>
        <p>
          <select name="combo5" id="combo5">
            <option value="o1">option1</option>
            <option value="o2">option2</option>
            <option value="o3">option3</option>
            <option value="o4">option4</option>
            <option value="o5">option5</option>
            <option value="o6">option6</option>
            <option value="o7">option7</option>
            <option value="o8">option8</option>
          </select>
      </p>
        <p>
          <select name="combo6" id="combo6">
            <option value="o1">option1</option>
            <option value="o2">option2</option>
            <option value="o3">option3</option>
            <option value="o4">option4</option>
            <option value="o5">option5</option>
            <option value="o6">option6</option>
            <option value="o7">option7</option>
            <option value="o8">option8</option>
          </select>
      </p>
        <p>
          <select name="select7">
            <option value="o1">option1</option>
            <option value="o2">option2</option>
            <option value="o3">option3</option>
            <option value="o4">option4</option>
            <option value="o5">option5</option>
            <option value="o6">option6</option>
            <option value="o7">option7</option>
            <option value="o8">option8</option>
          </select>    
          </p>
        <p>
          <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Envia y persiste" />
        </p>
    </form>






























































































By sending the form to persistencia.php, at the end of this file I include index.php, but this time I give some javascript code from php to it ... this is the other file ..
  1. <?php
        
        /*foreach($_POST as $clave => $valor)
            $datos[$clave] = $valor;    */
            
        $js = "<script language='javascript' src='jquery.js'></script>";
        $js.= "<script language='javascript'>";
        $js.= "$(document).ready(function() {";
        $js.= "$('#combo1').find('option[val=$_POST[combo1]]').attr('selected', true);";
        $js.= "$('#combo2').find('option[val=$_POST[combo2]]').attr('selected', true);";
        $js.= "$('#combo3').find('option[val=$_POST[combo3]]').attr('selected', true);";
        $js.= "$('#combo4').find('option[val=$_POST[combo4]]').attr('selected', true);";
        $js.= "$('#combo5').find('option[val=$_POST[combo5]]').attr('selected', true);";
        $js.= "$('#combo6').find('option[val=$_POST[combo6]]').attr('selected', true);";
        $js.= "$('#combo7').find('option[val=$_POST[combo7]]').attr('selected', true);";
        $js.= "})";
        $js.= "</script>";
        
        echo $js;
        
        include_once 'index.php';
    ?>




















But the proble is that this code doesn't work and the previos selection of the <select> fields don't persist on the page reload ...

I hope you can help .. please
Bye

Jony