Generate A Select Box For A HTML Form

Here is a function to generate a select box for a HTML form. The three parameters are:

1. $name : The name of the select, this will appear in the "name" attribute.
2. $options : An associative array containing all of the options.
3. $default : The option that will be selected as default.

function generateSelect($name,$options,$default=''){


  $html = '';


  foreach ($options as $value => $label) {


    $html .= '' . $label . '';


  }


  $html .= '';


  return $html;


}

You can call the function like this:

echo generateSelect('selectPreference',array('yes'=>'yes','no'=>'no'),'yes');

Which produces the following HTML as output:

yesno