Bloke

I solved it.

$first_query = get_posts('numberposts=-1&cat=10');

    if($first_query)
{
foreach( $first_query as $p )
{
if ($p->ID==$person_name)
{
$is_selected = "selected = 'selected'";
}
else
{
$is_selected = "";
}
echo '<option value="' . $p->ID . '" '.$is_selected.'>' .$p->post_title . '</option>';
}
}
?>
</select>

I found a couple tutorials but the select option s were hard coded like this. I need to convert my list of posts.

$options = array('one', 'two', 'three');
foreach ($options as $option) {
echo '<option value="' . $option . '" id="' . $option . '"', $select == $option ? ' selected="selected"' : '', '>', $option, '</option>';
            }
	            ?>
	        </select>

It is changing the name and if I reload the page it shows. But in the admin the select box refreshes to the first name on the list. I want it to hold the name that is selected.

I figured it out. Had to do with entering the values for the item. I added a new column and didn’t account for that. So it was failing to enter the item with a new ID.

That worked and now it lists all the posts for the category. Now I am trying to get my form to save the value of the person’s name selected in the dropdown:

class PersonofMonthWidget extends WP_Widget
{
  function PersonofMonthWidget ()
  {
    $widget_ops = array('classname' => 'PersonofMonthWidget', 'description' => 'Displays Person of Month' );
    $this->WP_Widget('PersonofMonthWidget', 'Person Month', $widget_ops);
  }

  function form($instance)
  {

    $instance = wp_parse_args( (array) $instance, array( 'title' => '' ) );
    $title = $instance['title'];
	$person_name = $instance['person_name'];

?>
  <p><label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>">Title: <input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('title'); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo attribute_escape($title); ?>" /></label></p>

<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>"><?php _e( 'Person of Month'); ?>:</label>
<select name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('person_name'); ?>" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('person_name'); ?>" class="widefat">
<?php

$first_query = new WP_Query('cat=10&posts_per_page=-1');
// The Loop
while ( $first_query->have_posts() ) : $first_query->the_post(); ?>
	<option value="<?php the_title() ?>"><?php the_title() ?></option>
<?php endwhile;

	    ?>
			</select>

			</p>

   <!-- -->
<?php
  }

  function update($new_instance, $old_instance)
  {

    $instance = $old_instance;
    $instance['title'] = $new_instance['title'];
	$instance['person_name'] = $new_instance['person_name'];
    return $instance;
  }

I am closing this because the title of the post is not descriptive of what I am try to do.

Seems I was missing a file. Uploaded new WPEC and Gold Cart and refreshed the cache.